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CT 40, pl. 49-50, K 04001+ (P395350)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 49-50, K 04001+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P395350 |
| 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 21 | If ditto and a bird stands in the left side of a man: |
| obverse 54 | If ditto (a man's face) is covered from the top of a man's face to the sky and passes by: that man will have no rival. |
| obverse 5 | If ditto and a bird stands in the back of a man's neck: from the right of a man to the left of a man... will be scattered. |
| obverse 10 | If a sow gives birth and a bird stands in its left: locusts will rage. |
| obverse 52 | If ditto a man's body is swollen and he flies behind him. |
| obverse 19 | If ditto and a bird stands in the front of a man: |
| obverse 8 | If ditto and a bird gives birth to anything and it stands from the left of a man to the left of a man: |
| obverse 20 | (If) a man is seen with a dark spot: he will become ill. |
| obverse 48 | (If) a man is eats with a goat: he will die. |
| obverse 16 | (If) a man is ill for a long time and he is ill for his own life. |
| obverse 2 | ... to...... |
| obverse 35 | If a man is stricken in his house and a snake is seen in front of him. |
| obverse 37 | If a bird of Itar turns into a bird: it will stand in front of a man. |
| reverse 2 | ... |
| reverse 3 | ... |
| reverse 5 | ... |
| reverse 4 | If ditto.... |
| obverse 44 | If a bird is seen in the middle of a... and it appears that man's eye: he will die. |
| obverse 11 | If ditto and a bird stands from the left side of a man to the left side of a man: he will take away its... and he will recover. |
| obverse 1 | If a man is seized by a guard to the palace and a bird stands from the left of a man to the left of a man. |
| obverse 15 | If ditto and a bird stands from the front of a man to the left: a na-gauge will pass by and its mouth will be dark and its body will become confused. |
| obverse 7 | (If) a man is...: he will not succeed. |
| obverse 49 | If ditto a man goes from the front of a man: that man will conquer. |
| obverse 41 | If an anomaly is provided with a bird's tail (and) its body is red and white: a good thing for him. |
| reverse 1 | If the Well-being... |
| obverse 4 | (If) a man is seen with a dark spot: he will become ill. |
| obverse 47 | (If) a rabnû-bird, from the right of a man to the left of a man, passes by |
| obverse 50 | If ditto a man is seized by the right side of the man and he goes in front of him: a man in that day will approach him. |
| obverse 14 | ... he will die and his illness will die. |
| obverse 32 | If a bird is like a locust, it is surrounded by a hole and its face is surrounded by a halo. |
| obverse 33 | (If) a man and a man are seized by the right and left: he will be good. |
| obverse 46 | If a man is seized by a harru-snake and is located at his disposal: he will die. |
| obverse 3 | If ditto and a bird stands from the right of a man to the left of a man: he will be killed and he will recover....... |
| obverse 28 | (If) he sees a evil: he will conquer. |
| obverse 30 | and his body is red: the bird of Anu will die. |
| obverse 6 | If ditto and a bird... anything and from the right of a man's head to the left....... |
| obverse 42 | If in Aries (appears): that man will become good. |
| obverse 43 | If a bird is surrounded by a hazibaru-plant: the bird of Nuska will stand on a censer. |
| obverse 39 | If a bird is surrounded by a halo: night will be surrounded by a halo. |
| obverse 23 | If ditto and a bird has swollen, and from the right of a man to the left of a man he sees a man. |
| reverse 6 | If ditto.... |
| obverse 24 | (If) a man is seen with a strong horn: he will be killed. |
| obverse 13 | If ditto and a bird stands from the left of a man to the left of a man: he will die and he will recover. |
| obverse 18 | (If) a man is seized by death and he will die. |
| obverse 34 | If a man approaches the house of his god and a urdu-bird to the right of a man: it will be good. |
| obverse 38 | (If) he sees a man and he sees an evil eye and an evil eye: he will send him a bad word and he will experience hardship. |
| obverse 31 | If a snake is red: the bird of Nergal will become good. |
| obverse 25 | If ditto and a bird gives birth to anything, and from the right of the man to the left of the man he will pass by. |
| obverse 29 | If a snake - its destruction is white as much as there is. |
| obverse 27 | If a bird's eyes are dark: evil. |
| obverse 9 | (If) a man is seized by share |
| obverse 40 | That ewe is sweet, sweet. |
| obverse 53 | Where you go, you crush your enemy and eat the share. |
| obverse 51 | If ditto he stands in front of a man and he goes in front of him. |
| obverse 36 | If an ebû-plant is a bird of Marduk: its body is like dates. |
| obverse 22 | he will die and he will die. |
| obverse 26 | (If) he goes before a man: that man will come out. |
| obverse 45 | If a... eats a bread and a bird stands on the right and on its left: he will approach him. |
| obverse 17 | If ditto and a bird stands from the left horn of a man to the left horn of a man and its mouth is dark and its body is swollen: |
| obverse 12 | If ditto and a bird stands from the right side of a man to the left side of a man and he strews its left side: that man will be long and he will die. |
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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