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ACh Suppl. 2 Sin 09a (P395228)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ACh Suppl. 2 Sin 09a |
|---|---|
| ID | P395228 |
| 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 11' | Adad will destroy the harvest of the land Amurru, the harvest of the land Akkad. |
| reverse 5' | If the Kidney Star enters it: the city, the king, and the people. |
| obverse 35' | If a planet stands in front of it: the land will be destroyed.... |
| obverse 18' | Ditto: there will be barley and straw in the land. |
| reverse 20' | If 2 stars stand in its right horn, alternatively, at its right horn: there will be an eclipse of the land. |
| reverse 30' | If it stands in its left horn, and Itar stands in its left horn. |
| obverse 10' | If the Moon at its appearance, on its right horn, a cloudburst, an eclipse; |
| obverse 20' | If the Yoke Constellation stands between its horns: the city whose wall is strong, its lord will devastate. |
| obverse 7' | If the Pleiades stand in front of it: the land.... |
| obverse 14' | (If) he sees a cloud in the north: the moon will be black. |
| reverse 23' | If stars stand in its middle: the king will die and his army will be scattered. |
| obverse 5' | If the Pleiades stand in its right horn: death in Amurru. |
| obverse 28' | If the Scorpion stands in its right horn in that man: locusts will attack, and the harvest will eat. |
| reverse 17' | If a star stands in its left horn: the enemy will kill. : If a star stands in its left horn:.... |
| reverse 16' | If the Lion stands in its right horn: in that month? |
| obverse 29' | In that year they will kill him. |
| obverse 11' | a little cloud in its left horn; black, black, |
| obverse 24' | (If) ditto: the kings will conquer the land. |
| reverse 15' | If the Well-being stands inside it: fall of cattle.... |
| reverse 12' | If a star stands in its left horn and Jupiter stands in front of it: a rainbow will come close to it. |
| reverse 34' | ... stands inside the right horn of the king... |
| obverse 15' | If the Moon at its appearance the Bow stands in its horn: the king's land will become happy. |
| reverse 32' | If a star stands in its horns: the king of Amurru will send enemy messages to the king of Uri. |
| obverse 33' | (If) the Scorpion's tail is like a lion: in that year there will be hostilities for Akkad. |
| obverse 26' | If Scorpius stands in its midst ditto in its midst: in its year there will be famine. |
| obverse 31' | (If) ditto: the king of Akkad and the king of Amurru will take up dominion. |
| reverse 19' | (If) his... stands (there): an eclipse of the land will occur; the king of the Westland will die. |
| reverse 3' | If the Field stands in front of it: in that year... ditto. |
| reverse 28' | If a star ditto stands in the north: a red star will stand in its left horn. |
| reverse 29' | If the Scales stands inside it: the price of silver.... |
| obverse 4' | If the Pleiades stand inside its horns: deaths will occur. |
| obverse 17' | If the Yoke Constellation stands in its horns: the kings of the land will make a rebellion. |
| obverse 6' | If the Pleiades stand in its left horn: in Akkad there will be famine. |
| reverse 31' | If it stands in its left horn: Makro will stand in his left horn. |
| reverse 10' | If the Moon at its appearance a star stands in its right horn and Jupiter stands in front of it. |
| reverse 24' | If the Kidney Star enters its midst: the enemy's land will fall. |
| obverse 3' | If the Pleiades stand inside it: deaths will take place and the moon will devour the land. |
| obverse 37' | If a planet stands in front of it: the land will be destroyed.... |
| obverse 8' | If the Moon, at its appearance, stands the Shepherd of Anu in its top: in that year the king of the land will widen his understanding to the land. |
| reverse 6' | If the Kidney Star reaches its normal length: barley and straw. |
| reverse 22' | If a star stands in the middle of its neck: the king of Subartu will die and his land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 16' | If the Moon at its appearance stands in the middle of it: the kings of the land will make a rebellion. |
| reverse 14' | If the Moon at its appearance is eclipsed: the Bull of Heaven will stand in its left. The king and his sons will end? the land. |
| reverse 8' | (If) it is low: the land will be divided and its hand will conquer. The ruin of the land will take place. |
| obverse 2' | If the Moon, at its appearance, the Pleiades stand at its side: the king will exercise world dominion. That land will be destroyed. |
| reverse 21' | If two stars stand behind it: in that month an eclipse will take place. : If a star stands in front of it: there will be an eclipse of the land. |
| obverse 22' | If the Arrow stands at its left horn: the king of Akkad and the king of Amurru will make no changes. |
| reverse 26' | (If) he dies ditto: the prince will die, variant: on the 20th day: the king will die. |
| obverse 25' | If Scorpius stands inside it: the flood will come and floods will come. |
| obverse 13' | (If) a cloudburst stands in the horn of the moon: rains will come. |
| obverse 12' | (If) a red cloud stands in its right horn: an eclipse. |
| reverse 2' | ... fish(?), in the river you do not pass by |
| obverse 34' | If the moon at its appearance stands in its inside: in that year death will occur in the land. |
| obverse 9' | If the Shepherd stands inside it: the king will exercise world dominion. |
| obverse 32' | If the Scorpion stands in front of it: the land will become confused. |
| reverse 27' | If white stars stand on its right and left horn: there will be an eclipse. |
| reverse 25' | If the Scorpion enters its inside and emerges: there will be hostility among the people. |
| reverse 9' | If its right horn ditto, its left horn... stands at his side. |
| obverse 1' | ......... |
| obverse 19' | If the Yoke stands in its midst: battle of the land will come. |
| obverse 27' | You mix date palms and dates with ditto. |
| obverse 21' | If the Arrow stands in its right horn: the king of Elam will kill him. |
| reverse 13' | The harvest of the land Amurru made the land Akkad... evil. |
| reverse 4' | If it stands in front of Dildi: the king will come and... will devastate. |
| reverse 18' | If the Kidney Star stands in it: the great king will die and his son will devour the land. |
| reverse 7' | If the Bristle, the ulpa'e-demon, a planet and the evil star stand in front of him. |
| obverse 30' | (If) the Scorpion stands in its left horn: in that year locusts will attack and date palms. |
| obverse 36' | ......... |
| obverse 23' | If the Moon at its appearance is surrounded by a halo: dogs and lions will come out and |
| reverse 33' | If the Moon at its appearance its right and left horns are white: an eclipse will take place. |
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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