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CM 43, pl. 39 (P394354)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CM 43, pl. 39 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394354 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 4' | If the water of the sky is full of swollen rain(?) |
| 12' | If there is a mole on the tongue, Adad will devastate |
| 9' | If there is a mole on the water of the sky, there will be food for her. |
| 17' | If a fog rolls in Ayyaru (II): attack of the enemy against my land. |
| 5' | If the water of the sky is dark: there will be famine. |
| 14' | (If) there is a mole...: there will be a good name. |
| 13' | If there is a mole.... |
| 1' | If the water of the sky is red: he will recover. |
| 3' | If the water of the sky is flooded: there will be famine. |
| 7' | If in the water of the sky it is surrounded by a stone: the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| 18' | If a fog rolls in Simanu (Month III): the gods will destroy the land. |
| 20' | If fog rolls in Abu (V): the land will experience famine. |
| 2' | If the waters of the sky are dark: the harvest will prosper. |
| 15' | If there is a mole..., there will be deaths. |
| 16' | If a fog rolls in Nisannu (Month I): the people of the land will rule. |
| 6' | If there is a mole on the water of the sky: the name of the land will be good. |
| 10' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder: there will be famine. |
| 19' | If in Duuzu (Month IV) a fog rolls: an eclipse (means): the gods will rule the land. |
| 11' | If there is a mole on the gall bladder: barley and sesame will prosper. |
| 8' | If in the water of the sky fish: the harvest of the land will prosper. |
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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