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K 02316 (P394344)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02316 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394344 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| obverse 2' | ... in the palatial hall, there will be an enemy. |
| reverse 2' | ......... |
| obverse 10' | ... you heap up... |
| obverse 13' | ... he will diminish his property. |
| obverse 6' | ... the great... of that palace... |
| obverse 9' | ... there will be famine. : there will be famine in the land. |
| reverse 3' | ... the house(?) |
| obverse 11' | ... there will be..., their sons will come to an end. |
| reverse 10' | ... before |
| reverse 7' | ... will bring(?) |
| obverse 0' | ... a palace tree : the great army will fall. |
| reverse 11' | ... and |
| reverse 6' | ...... he entered. |
| reverse 9' | ... of the |
| obverse 4' | ... of a great palace... |
| obverse 7' | ... there will be hunger in the land. |
| obverse 12' | ... great..., who provides for a man's house. |
| obverse 3' | ... of a great palace,.... we have gathered. |
| obverse 1' | ... on the throne and the bed of the great palace, another report |
| reverse 8' | ... will die |
| reverse 12' | ... king |
| obverse 8' | ... who is assiduous towards the city, his king. |
| obverse 5' | ... of the great palace, the cleansing of the palace. |
| reverse 5' | ......... |
| reverse 4' | ...... before |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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