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K 03542 (P395078)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 03542 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395078 |
| 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 a yellow-green KA.TAR-mark is located in a man's house: that house will be established. |
| obverse 2' | If there is a mole in a man's house, in a wall, a fire which is torn out: that house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 1' | If there is a mole on the south side: the lady will die. |
| obverse 4' | If the anomaly is located in a man's house: there will be a fire in the west. |
| obverse 8' | If a black spot is located on the north side: hand of a robber. |
| reverse 4 | If the horns of the 'finger' are located in the 'finger': that house will be abandoned. |
| obverse 7' | If a black spot is located on the south side: there will be frost. |
| reverse 1 | If its horns are black: its horns will fall in a man's house. |
| obverse 3' | If there is a mole in a man's house, a fire will come out of the east. |
| obverse 6' | If a black pig is located in a man's house: the man's house will become poor. |
| reverse 2 | If the horns of the 'finger' of the lung are in the man's house: that house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 5' | If it is favourable: Numuda will see the wife and the wife. |
| reverse 5 | If the horn of the lung is located on the right and on the left: that house will become old. |
| reverse 6 | If... is yellow: in a man's house, the owner of the house will become happy. |
| reverse 3 | If the horns of the 'finger' are located in the house of the man's dwelling: there will be an attack of the house. |
| reverse 8 | If a yellow-green KA.TAR-mark stands in a man's house: the owner of the house will be satisfied. |
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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