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K 02935 + K 12869 + K 14023 + K 11850 + K 12518 + K 12751 + K 13926 (P394737)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02935 + K 12869 + K 14023 + K 11850 + K 12518 + K 12751 + K 13926 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394737 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial |
| 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 10' | If a name is placed on the left side of the'station': he will die. |
| obverse 5' | If a snake comes close to the front of a man: he will conquer. |
| obverse 7' | If a snake falls into a pit: a man will die. |
| obverse 11' | If a snake approaches the feet of a man: fall of slave and slave. |
| obverse 15' | If a snake is surrounded by a halo, and it is surrounded by a halo: that god will have mercy. |
| obverse 13' | If a snake comes close to the feet of a man: that man will become frightened. |
| reverse 1 | If a snake is surrounded by a halo: he will die. |
| obverse 8' | If a name is placed on a man's neck: either a censer or a censer. |
| obverse 6' | If a snake afflicts a man's body: he will die. |
| reverse 5 | If a snake falls on a sick person: his illness will be long and he will recover. |
| reverse 7 | If a snake is related to a sick person's illness for many days. |
| reverse 8 | That illness will arise and he will recover. |
| reverse 16 | If a snake...... on a man's neck: he will die. |
| obverse 9' | ... that man will be plundered. |
| reverse 17 | ... his lord(?), he has made him tremble |
| reverse 9 | If a snake is swollen on a patient's illness: he will die. |
| obverse 4' | If a snake is seen in front of the left side of the halo: he will die. |
| reverse 3 | If a snake is surrounded by a halo: he will die and he will become poor. |
| reverse 18 | If a snake... on a man's neck: that man will die. |
| reverse 13 | If a snake is located on top of a man: a lawsuit will arise. |
| reverse 12 | If a snake stands in the top of the 'finger': he will die. |
| reverse 14 | If his name is on top of a man: a lawsuit will arise. His case will be long. |
| reverse 4 | If he is surrounded by a halo: that land will recover. |
| reverse 10 | If he is ill for his illness, he will be ill in his body and will be ill. |
| obverse 14' | The silver is paid in Babylon. |
| reverse 15 | his case he will recover. |
| obverse 3' | If a man is seized by a man in front of the right: he will die. |
| obverse 1' | If a snake is surrounded by a halo: a man will die and he will die. |
| obverse 12' | If a snake emerges on top of a man: that man will smite his agu. |
| reverse 11 | If a snake stands in the top of the head of the gall bladder to the left: that man will die. |
| obverse 2' | emerges: that man will seize and be killed. |
| reverse 2 | Ditto: his father and mother will see him. |
| reverse 6 | If a snake is swollen on the head: 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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