Unread Atlas

Home › Tablets › P394359

K 02347 (P394359)

CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets

DesignationK 02347
IDP394359
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreCANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 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.

LineMachine English (draft)
9'(If) a man does not......: he will die.
6'If ditto and a bird stands from the right of a man to the left of a man: a man will fall.
11'......
7'(If) the right of a man is not...: he will not conquer.
1'If ditto and a bird... in front of a man....
8'If ditto and a bird stands from the left of a man to the left of a man: a man will fall from the left of a man to the left of a man.
5'If ditto and a bird is crossed over a man: a man will enter his house.
2'If ditto and a bird stands from the front of a man to the left: the man will become good. From the left he will become good.
4'If ditto and a bird stands from the right side of a man to the left side of a man and it reaches the left side of the gall bladder: the man will die.
3'If ditto and a bird gives birth to anything and it is provided with a pigeon's breast: a man will die and he will die.
10'... sees favorable.

Sources & licences

Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.