Šumma izbu no. 3, K 03695+ (P395176)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Šumma izbu no. 3, K 03695+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P395176 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 4' | If a woman gives birth and its right horn is not present in the land: the prince will die. |
| obverse 16 | If a woman gives birth and its right lung is located on its right side: the heir of a man's house will be scattered. |
| obverse 1 | If a woman gives birth and it is provided with a lion's eye: the king will become strong in the land. |
| obverse 6 | If a woman gives birth and its left ear is surrounded by a halo: the man's household will expand. |
| obverse 14 | If a woman gives birth and its right hand is seized: a lilû-demon will give birth in a man's house. |
| reverse 9' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 2 | If a woman gives birth and its right ear does not exist: the day of the prince's end. |
| obverse 10 | If a woman gives birth and its ears are swollen: the man's house will be seized. |
| obverse 19 | If a woman gives birth and its two ears are located on the left of the lung and it is not present: the land will be destroyed. |
| reverse 6' | If a woman gives birth and its lu-disease : a lu-disease of the land will be scattered. |
| obverse 5 | If a woman gives birth and its right ear is surrounded by a halo: the man's house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 3 | If a woman gives birth and its left ear does not exist: the days of the prince will be long. |
| obverse 8 | If a woman gives birth and its right lung is covered: the man's house will be destroyed. |
| reverse 8' | Tablet 3 of... |
| obverse 11 | If a woman gives birth and its right ear is swollen: the LUL-demon will die in the man's house. |
| obverse 4 | If a woman gives birth and its ears are not large: there will be a wall in the land and the land will diminish. |
| obverse 18 | If a woman gives birth and its ears are 2 and are located on the right of the gall bladder: there will be no hostility among the gods. |
| obverse 17 | If a woman gives birth and its left hand is located below and is located: the heir of a man will clear the man's house. |
| reverse 5' | If a woman gives birth and its right rib is not present: the enemy's land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 13 | If a woman gives birth and its ears are located on her right side: that land will become happy. |
| obverse 9 | If a woman gives birth and its left lung is covered: the house's owner will be scattered. : The man's house will expand. |
| reverse 7' | If a woman gives birth and... |
| obverse 12 | If a woman gives birth and its left ear is split on her left: there will be famine in the man's house. |
| obverse 7 | If a woman gives birth and its limbs are small: the man's house will become poor. |
| reverse 3' | If a woman gives birth to four feet and it is provided with a 'foot'-mark and a 'foot'-mark: the land will experience sorrow. |
| obverse 15 | If a woman gives birth and its left lung is split: attack of a man. |
| reverse 2' | If a woman gives birth to a woman and its feet are 3: her brother will enter inside the brother's house and there will be hostilities in the land. |
| reverse 1' | If a woman... of... one.... |
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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