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K 03824 (P395253)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 03824 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395253 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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 5' | for the appearance of my kingship |
| reverse 8' | May Nabû, scribe of all the lands, make his name disappear |
| obverse 7 | ... the palace, which is like his palace, will conquer. |
| reverse 7' | Whoever erases my inscribed name or writes his name, |
| reverse 6' | in my palace he established. |
| obverse 3 | If ME.NI... |
| reverse 3' | According to the wording of tablet(s), ecstatic(s), ecstatic(s) of Assyria, Sumer and Akkad |
| obverse 5 | If ME.NI... fire in the palace... |
| obverse 10 | If ME.NI is two, the king will take place in the right seat. The prince's palace will take the enemy's land. |
| obverse 12 | If the upper part is elevated: the palace will become happy. |
| obverse 4 | If ME.NI... your troops will not reach its inner sanctum. |
| obverse 8 | If ME.NI have two horns and they are in opposition: the vizier, his lord, will be entrusted. |
| obverse 9 | If ME.NI have two horns and are set on their necks: the vizier will seize his lord's throne. |
| obverse 11 | If ME.NI is two, the king will take place in the left surface of the 'finger.' the palace will take the prince. |
| obverse 13 | The lower part is elevated. The lower part is elevated. |
| obverse 1 | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'finger': there will be famine in the land. |
| reverse 2' | son of Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 4' | I wrote this tablet on my tablet, wrote, and collated it. |
| obverse 6 | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'finger' and the prince is located on his left side. |
| obverse 2 | If there is a mole... of the gods, there will be walled walls in my city. |
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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