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K 02349 (P394360)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02349 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394360 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 23' | If a star rises from south to south: in the 6th month the king will die. |
| reverse 14' | ................. |
| reverse 5' | ... a strong enemy will take place in the land. |
| obverse 2' | ... there will be...; the harvest of the land will prosper;... |
| obverse 5' | If a snake ditto... a snake and Scorpius |
| obverse 16' | If the Pabilsag Constellation ditto and afflicts a sick person: |
| obverse 4' | If the Yoke Constellation afflicts a fog: there will be famine in the land. |
| reverse 8' | If a star is surrounded by a fog: from east to west, enemy troops will fall. |
| obverse 23' | [If] the Kidney Star ditto and the harvest is favourable: the land will prosper. |
| reverse 2' | This sign is good. It is not good for the owner of the house that the entire land will die and the guard in the land will die. |
| obverse 18' | If the Pleiades ditto and there is a famine: the third year will take place in the land. |
| obverse 12' | If the Well-being reaches the sun: the harvest of the land will prosper. There will be deaths in the land. |
| reverse 22' | If a star flares up from the middle of the sky and sets in the west: strong attack in the land. |
| reverse 21' | If a star passes from the west to the east: 3 years the land will experience evil. |
| obverse 17' | If the Yoke ditto: destruction of the land. |
| reverse 4' | ... the enemy will take place in the land. The king will send angry messages to the king. |
| reverse 12' | ... he who... |
| obverse 26' | If Mars ditto: the cattle of the land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 24' | If the Nintu-stars ditto and the small ones of the middle surface are covered: death. |
| obverse 9' | (If) the Kidney Star reaches the Kidney Star: the land will become happy. |
| reverse 3' | ... the king of the land will stand in his truth. |
| reverse 13' | ... on the 3rd day, on the 10th day: female kids will be placed. |
| obverse 15' | If the Bull of Heaven reaches the woman and the enemy: |
| obverse 11' | If the Kidney Star reaches the king: his land will be abandoned. |
| obverse 21' | If the Arrow ditto and Ninurta: a reign of gods will come to an end. |
| reverse 27' | If a star flares up in the evening from east to west and enters the middle of the sky: |
| obverse 31' | ... Nergal eats in the land |
| obverse 19' | If the Kidney Star ditto: the king of Elam and the king of Guti will die. |
| obverse 7' | If the Westland ditto and in Subartu and the land of Elam there is famine. |
| obverse 6' | If Dildi ditto... in Akkad: the harvest will prosper. |
| reverse 24' | If a star flares up from the south and sets and a cloudburst enters and a cloudburst: that man will die. |
| obverse 10' | If a pigeon gives birth to a woman and Mars: the cattle of the land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 28' | If the Scorpion ditto: deaths of the king of that land. |
| obverse 14' | If Marduk's woman and the 10th year consumes a land in its midst: gods will rage towards the land. |
| reverse 18' | If a star ditto enters the interior of Niru and enters it: there will be a grave. : If a star enters the west and enters the interior of Sin. |
| reverse 25' | If a star flares up from sunrise to sunset and sets: attack of the enemy. |
| reverse 26' | If a star flares up from the north to the west all day and falls upon the land and falls on the ground: the land will become happy. |
| reverse 16' | ..... he shall remove. |
| obverse 33' | ...... |
| obverse 32' | ... there will be... in the land. |
| obverse 29' | If the Kidney Star ditto and sesame will not prosper. |
| reverse 1' | If a star flashes and its horns are swollen: the day will be long; in its horns it will be like a matu-mark. |
| reverse 15' | ... he will conquer. |
| obverse 27' | If a planet... ditto............. |
| reverse 10' | ... that year, rain, I did not rain. |
| obverse 13' | If the King's Woman and in that year the kings of the land will die. |
| obverse 22' | If the Bow ditto and Elam attack and devours the land. |
| obverse 25' | ... he will die and the sea will be destroyed. |
| reverse 11' | ... rejoicing |
| reverse 28' | ... KUR-ad |
| reverse 9' | ... the army will fall in its midst. |
| reverse 7' | Adad thunders: the harvest of the land will devastate Adad. |
| obverse 30' | If inuntu and Eridu are killed and the land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 20' | If the...-na-star and the king, the lord of the reign, are scattered in his midst: |
| obverse 3' | ..., who makes... rejoice, |
| reverse 19' | If that star does not come out 3 times and is not bright. |
| reverse 6' | ... of a hurru-tree, a hyena that emerges from the midst and eats (it) in the land. |
| reverse 20' | If a star flashes from the east to the south: the Stag will fall and in the west (is) three years. |
| obverse 8' | If the Wagon ditto and ub-iddina |
| reverse 17' | If a star flares up from the west and enters inside Lisi: there will be hostility. |
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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