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ACh Adad 04-05 (P395515)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ACh Adad 04-05 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395515 |
| 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 1 15' | ... he will die and afterwards he will experience famine. |
| col 2 21' | If in Nisannu (I) Adad thunders: a sheep will be cut off. |
| col 2 3' | If in Nisannu (Month I), ditto... |
| col 2 19' | If in Kislimu (Month IX), ditto the land will experience famine (or): if in Kislimu (Month IX), the land will experience. |
| col 2 17' | If in Ululu (Month VI) ditto a flood afflicts... |
| col 2 12' | If in Nisannu (I) Adad thunders and with oil or oil |
| col 1 24' | ... houses, evil ones |
| col 1 8' | ... people will die. |
| col 1 22' | ... there will be |
| col 1 6' | ... and he will raise a price in the land. |
| col 1 19' | ... he is ill. He is killed and he is killed. |
| col 2 20' | If in abau (Month XI) ditto: the land will raise as much as there will be. : If in abau (Month XI) ditto: there will be...s with weapons. |
| col 1 3' | ... land |
| col 1 4' | ... are not favourable |
| col 2 9' | If in Arasamna (Month VIII), ditto a date palm(?) |
| col 1 5' | ... he will become frightened. |
| col 2 7' | If in Ululu (Month VI) ditto... |
| col 2 16' | If in Duuzu (Month IV) ditto: the land.... |
| col 2 6' | If in Abu (Month V),... |
| col 2 13' | It will be a rainstorm; the end of the land will be overcast. |
| col 1 12' | ... Adad will devastate. |
| col 1 14' | ... Adad will devastate. |
| col 2 23' | If in Ayyaru (Month I), ditto he is surrounded by a pig... |
| col 1 10' | The... of the land of Amurru is dark. |
| col 2 5' | If in Duuzu (Month IV) ditto |
| col 1 17' | ... there are no fertile fields. |
| col 2 18' | If in Taritu (VII) ditto a flood flashes: variant: a flood flashes in Arasamna. |
| col 1 23' | ... there will be |
| col 1 16' | ...... grain is small. |
| col 2 4' | If in Simanu (Month III) ditto |
| col 2 10' | If in Kislimu (Month IX), the flood |
| col 1 21' | ... will come |
| col 1 2' | ... and |
| col 1 11' | ... the flood will be scattered. |
| col 2 14' | If in Ayyaru (Month IX), ditto (a period of) 3 years (or) 3 months (or) 10 days: the land will be seized. |
| col 1 20' | ... sesame and dates, I did not harvest. |
| col 2 1' | If in the month |
| col 1 7' | ... eat |
| col 2 8' | If in Taritu (Month VII), ditto the tree |
| col 1 9' | ... he will go to the north |
| col 2 22' | (If) ditto: he will die and he will go to the fourth day. |
| col 2 15' | If in Simanu (Month III) ditto: 5 years the harvest of the land will prosper. Azigû.... |
| col 2 24' | ...... |
| col 1 18' | ...... and dates will not prosper. |
| col 2 11' | If in abau (Month XI), ditto the harvest of the land will prosper |
| col 1 25' | ... and he eats |
| col 2 2' | If in Nisannu (Month I) |
| col 1 13' | ...... : he will devastate. |
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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