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K 03958 (P395327)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 03958 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395327 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 11' | If ditto the gates of a man's house are smashed... |
| reverse 6 | ... you recite... and the destinies... |
| obverse 12' | If ditto a ulatu-mark is located on a moat:... a man's flesh is red: the king's heart....... |
| reverse 8 | ... a thorny bow |
| reverse 9 | ... you recite... and the destinies... |
| obverse 5' | If ditto a man ditto and he emerges from the house: the property of the palace will come out. |
| reverse 7 | (Ditto:) BAR, snake, BAR, a black basket, BAR, alubû-tree, BAR, a curse |
| obverse 13' | If ditto (a man) dies in the place of a man and that man will die.... |
| obverse 6' | If ditto he does not pay attention to the property of the palace, he will go out from the house. |
| reverse 4 | (If) it is surrounded by a rainbow-shaped halo, a scorpion....... |
| obverse 2' | If ditto he is ill with the palace and he is ill with the ground: the king will die and the king will die his days. |
| obverse 14' | If ditto (a man) is not covered in a mud wall:.... |
| obverse 4' | If ditto a ulatu-disease is located on the ground and the king's servants will die.... |
| reverse 5 | ...... that... and the boat... |
| obverse 3' | If ditto a man's servants are killed in a chariot: he will not die. |
| reverse 3 | If ditto a man ditto and he is not satisfied in his heart: he will not become satisfied. |
| obverse 1' | If ditto of a palace is clean and is located on a foundation wall: the king's days will not be long; the protection of his palace will come forth. |
| obverse 10' | If ditto that of a man's house is smashed, that house will be destroyed, that palace will be destroyed.... |
| obverse 7' | If a planet... the property of a man's house... |
| obverse 8' | If ditto he strews a man's property: that house... |
| obverse 9' | If ditto a thorny tree is planted in a man's house: that woman will die. That man... |
| reverse 2 | If ditto a man ditto and a man's son will die and.... |
| reverse 1 | If ditto he is ill and he is ill with him and he... his... and.... |
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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