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K 02988 (P394764)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 02988 |
|---|---|
| ID | P394764 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 7 | If ditto a ditto a ditto: good health. |
| obverse 9' | If a man's flesh is yellow-green: the god... |
| obverse 6' | If a man’s flesh is white... |
| obverse 10' | If a man is stricken with a tamlû-tree:... |
| reverse 3 | If ditto (a man, when) he is stricken on a throne, he will die. |
| obverse 1' | ... his hand... |
| edge 2 | In... his name... |
| obverse 7' | If a man’s flesh is dark:.... |
| obverse 4' | If ditto a king ditto.... |
| reverse 5 | If ditto a man seized a man on a throne |
| obverse 3' | he shall rule.... |
| reverse 2 | If it is seen on the bed: ditto (he will recover). |
| obverse 8' | If a man's flesh is red:....... |
| obverse 2' | If a man... in his body... |
| reverse 8 | If ditto he is ill on a linen cloth: he will become satisfied. |
| reverse 1 | If a man is seized by a sword: hand of his enemy. |
| obverse 5' | If ditto his fate ditto:.... |
| reverse 9 | If ditto a sorcery afflicts him in the evening: a severe illness(?). |
| edge 1 | If.......... |
| reverse 4 | If ditto a man strews a mole on the throne: a god will die. |
| reverse 6 | If ditto a table...... to evil.... |
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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