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Multabiltu no. 028 (P395257)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Multabiltu no. 028 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395257 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2 7' | If its left 'finger' is split into a cloudy cloud:.... |
| col 1 6 | ...... will die against his land. |
| col 3 11' | If to the... of a sick person |
| col 2 4' | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'finger' on the left side of the 'finger.' |
| col 3 15' | If ditto and ditto and he dies.... |
| col 2 8' | (If) the feet of the 'finger' are pointed like a 'foot': to... |
| col 3 1' | If a lung... |
| col 3 4' | 7 weapons, 5 bur3-bowls, 3 bowls |
| col 1 5 | ... from the gate of the land of the Sunqa River; he will see light. |
| col 2 6' | If the'station' is white like a 'weapon'-mark and the'strength' is split and does not have a finger: Ibbi-Sîn |
| col 1 14 | ... left of the gall bladder. |
| col 1 9 | ... whose land... is darkened, |
| col 2 14' | (If) a pregnant woman, whose sons... |
| col 3 12' | The seat of the throne |
| col 1 13 | ... the left of the gall bladder is split: the property of the land will change. |
| col 3 10' | ... |
| col 3 3' | ... |
| col 1 8 | [...]... [...] |
| col 3 5' | The father of his son who loves... |
| col 2 15' | If there is a mole on the left side of the king's hand,.... |
| col 3 7' | The city... to a favorable fate.... |
| col 2 3' | If the king is well, he will take it from the prince's land. |
| col 2 13' | If its king is like a... and a open country is built and its hand does not acquire it, Kubaba(?) |
| col 2 9' | If the 'king' is white: her'strength' will rage. The 'paths' will rage towards the'strength.' |
| col 2 2' | If the Well-being is located like a crescent and it is located on the left side of the gall bladder and it does not have a prince or his land. |
| col 3 9' | If to the 'well-being' a 'weapon'-mark.... |
| col 1 3 | ... the upper side, the lower side, the enemy will set |
| col 1 7 | ..... lordship of the mountain(s)... |
| col 2 5' | You sit in a haruspex; alternatively, the heavens will be sated. |
| col 1 11 | ... of the land between them I seized. |
| col 3 2' | If....... |
| col 3 8' | .... |
| col 2 12' | If the Well-being is like a lung: the wife of a man her sons will kill her. |
| col 3 13' | If ditto and the nose... on the right.... |
| col 1 2 | ... your city... will conquer your enemy. |
| col 2 11' | If the'strength' is white: the'strength' is present. |
| col 2 1' | If....... |
| col 2 10' | If the Well-beings are like imukku and the beams are stricken: Kubaba. |
| col 3 14' | If ditto and the coils of the colon: 10.... |
| col 4 1' | ...... |
| col 1 4 | ... the upper side, next to the city, it crossed the sky. |
| col 1 10 | ... on the right and left you see a 'foot'-mark. Ditto. |
| col 1 15 | ... the front of the gall bladder is surrounded by a gall bladder. |
| col 1 1 | ...... the enemy will fall in its midst. |
| col 3 6' | If it is agreeable to (him): he will reach the highest rank. |
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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