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Leichty Izbu index (P394494)

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

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Designation	Leichty Izbu index
ID	P394494
Museum no.	BM —
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Genre	CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu
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)
8	(If) his... becomes visible: the city will be abandoned and he will become happy.
13	... the city of its gate is located.
14	... land eats
5	... he will see...: ama.
9	...............
10	... that city will go to war.
11	... and the land of the prince will be destroyed, its cattle will be eaten.
7	... he smote..., he smote the woman, (and) your land ama.
1	... he strews... at his mouth.
3	..............
12	...... you pound and her goods you shall take.
6	(If) his... sees a woman: the enemy will devour your land.
2	... may he become angry with him and he will die.
4	... is swollen and he will die.

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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