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CT 41, pl. 01-04, K 03701 + (P395179)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 41, pl. 01-04, K 03701 + |
|---|---|
| ID | P395179 |
| 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 24' | If an anomaly which ditto appears in a garden, your cult center will be destroyed. |
| obverse 21' | That river will fill your lips. |
| obverse 20' | If an anomaly which ditto appears in the river |
| obverse 10' | ... the temple?... |
| reverse 23 | If he... with thunder, rain and... |
| reverse 21 | (If) in the city............... |
| obverse 13' | If a bird... is located on a threshing floor: there will be a flood in the land. |
| reverse 17 | (If) ditto (a man, when walking,) he strews water in the garden: the lord of the garden. |
| reverse 14 | If ditto (and) a bull stands in a man's house:.... |
| reverse 15 | If ditto a planet emerges in a halo : in a man's house....... |
| obverse 23' | The king will approach the land. |
| reverse 39 | ......... |
| obverse 25' | If the eagle becomes visible in the... of the city: that city will experience evil. |
| obverse 11' | ... whose face nobody knows. In the midst of the palace... |
| obverse 1' | ......... |
| reverse 1 | If a ewe gives birth to a bird in a cloister |
| obverse 2' | ... sits on a peaceful daises. |
| obverse 4' | ... to the... of mankind his... with(?) |
| reverse 20 | If a kudurrnu bird is like a kiln,... horns |
| reverse 13 | If ditto (and) in a man's house they enter (and) birds.... |
| reverse 32 | ... stands on the bank of the river. Half of the gap... |
| reverse 30 | The ziggurat of the land will smite, the heart of the land will smite |
| reverse 16 | If ditto (a man) lies in the wall of the city: that city will be destroyed. |
| reverse 3 | If the eagle's head in the lap of a man's house... |
| obverse 7' | ...... whose face nothing is missing in the palace... |
| reverse 37 | ... the chief of the throne |
| reverse 7 | namru of the city |
| reverse 2 | ... enemy?... to the land... |
| reverse 22 | You recite the incantation 'His name is in his name.' |
| reverse 10 | If a bird's name is in the city that enters....... |
| reverse 35 | If...... the city.... |
| obverse 12' | ... that temple will be destroyed. |
| reverse 29 | on the bank of the river like that of a flood... |
| reverse 38 | ... water |
| reverse 31 | (If) he is a pigeon: his name is for them; he is a lion before.... |
| obverse 5' | ... he did, and then he brought the troops with the weapon |
| reverse 12 | If ditto he sees a man in a man's house... in the field not.... |
| obverse 19' | If an anomaly, which ditto is seen in the lap of a god's temple, that god's temple will be destroyed. |
| obverse 9' | ... whose face no hand is seen in the palace... |
| reverse 5 | If a ewe gives birth to a lion in the centre of the city:.... |
| obverse 3' | ... at any time, no one... |
| reverse 24 | If a mountain thunders: he will not live. Ditto. |
| obverse 18' | He will be seen inside the city. That city will be plundered. |
| obverse 22' | If it is raining: ditto it is seen in the wall. |
| reverse 4 | If a eagle sees a bird in a man's house: that house....... |
| reverse 6 | If a eagle stands in the centre of the city and... |
| reverse 36 | ... the land |
| reverse 26 | If an apilnu-bird... greatly and.... |
| reverse 33 | If a... bird stands in its name: a man's house... and he is surrounded by a flood |
| reverse 18 | If a pigeon... a... ox.... |
| reverse 9 | If a eagle stands in the wall(?), the mouth(?) of the city will be... |
| reverse 25 | If a mountain thunders: he will not live. : the river level blew; in. |
| obverse 14' | If a bird stands in the top of a man's head: the gods will devastate the land. |
| obverse 6' | ... whose face nobody in the city wall(?) |
| obverse 15' | If he is seized, he who is before a man is seized, he is seized, he is seized, he is seized, |
| obverse 17' | If an anomaly which is placed before a man, it is favourable, it is favourable, it is favourable. |
| reverse 34 | If......... the palace... |
| reverse 19 | ... evil and evil... in his name good... |
| reverse 11 | If ditto the Lion reaches the Lion: to the Lion... the city.... |
| reverse 8 | If a eagle stands in the city: the enemy will attack. : he will kill.... |
| obverse 8' | ... that palace |
| reverse 27 | in that place, rain and floods... |
| obverse 16' | He will see the city wall in the city wall. The city will become strong. |
| reverse 28 | If an ewe gives birth to a bird: there will be a mail of the bird. |
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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