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Babyloniaca 06, 261 (P395096)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Babyloniaca 06, 261 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395096 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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 5' | he will not live there. |
| obverse 4' | From the morning to the evening, |
| reverse 5 | ... is dark... |
| obverse 9' | (If) he eats a king's land: he will make his life long. |
| reverse 6 | ......... |
| obverse 11' | ... of Nisannu the day emerges and the day is good. |
| obverse 16' | ... he will not pay back the interest of the month, the day 30. |
| reverse 3 | ... life |
| obverse 6' | If a storm blows on the south wind: |
| obverse 1' | ... 2 clouds... |
| obverse 3' | If the day of his disappearance is like a flood: Adad(?) |
| obverse 12' | If the day is like an eclipse, there will be an eclipse, all of it. |
| reverse 2 | ... hand |
| reverse 4 | ... is dark at... |
| reverse 1 | ...... year: "... |
| obverse 2' | ... sunrise to moonset: 2°; in the morning watch, 20°... |
| obverse 10' | ... stands... and he strews... |
| obverse 15' | If the day reaches its normal length:.... |
| obverse 7' | (If) he eats king of Akkad: an eclipse will take place on the south side and |
| obverse 13' | If the day reaches its normal length |
| obverse 14' | ... he will complete the remainder of the month, the 30th day. |
| obverse 17' | ...... on a favorable day... |
| obverse 8' | If the day reaches the side of the 'finger' of the lung: 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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