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Babyloniaca 06, 255 (P395141)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Babyloniaca 06, 255 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395141 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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 6 | ...... |
| reverse 8 | If... |
| obverse 11' | If in Addaru (Month XII) Adad |
| obverse 3' | If in Ululu (Month VI) |
| reverse 4 | ............ and... |
| obverse 10' | ......... |
| reverse 5 | ... king?... |
| obverse 1' | If in Abu (Month V) |
| obverse 12' | In the month of Addaru Adad |
| obverse 7' | .... |
| obverse 4' | If in Taritu (Month VII) |
| obverse 6' | If in Kislimu (Month IX) |
| obverse 2' | The king's hand... |
| reverse 7 | ...... |
| obverse 8' | If in ebtu (Month X) |
| obverse 13' | (If) they go: the king who does not have a name; he will die and he will experience distress. |
| reverse 1 | If in Ululu (Month VI) Adad thunders: the horse will be seen. |
| obverse 9' | If in abau (Month XI) Adad |
| obverse 5' | If in Arasamna (Month VIII) |
| reverse 2 | the mighty king will die and... the weapons will be brought to an end. |
| reverse 3 | ... watercourses, watercourses, together... |
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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