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CT 20, pl. 07, K 05151 (P395913)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 20, pl. 07, K 05151 |
|---|---|
| ID | P395913 |
| 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 13 | (If)... is not good: the middle of the 'finger' of the lung will become stationary. |
| obverse 2 | The enemy will not reach my land; the utterance of the god will be...; the... of the scribal art will not pass;... the son of a man.... |
| obverse 1 | (If) he goes to my land, he will die and he will die. |
| obverse 11 | the middle of the 'finger' of the lung is split. The left side of the gall bladder is split. The rear? of the gall bladder is 'loose.' The troops are frightened. The enemy troops are killed. |
| obverse 8 | (If) the middle of the 'finger' of the lung is 2: your 'increment' is split. |
| obverse 4 | The middle of the 'path' is split on the right. The enemy will seize my right side of the city and in the open country....... |
| obverse 9 | (If)... is dark: in the middle surface of the 'finger' there is a 'foot'-mark. The right and left are 2: the campaign of the enemy will make a hostile attack; the enemy's army will not prosper. |
| obverse 6 | ... the middle of the 'finger' of the lung is split. The enemy will seize his right hand and he will not reach my right. |
| obverse 12 | (If) in the middle of the 'finger' a 'foot'-mark is located on the right: the enemy will attack my land. |
| obverse 10 | The middle of the 'path' is split. The left side of the 'finger' is split....... |
| obverse 3 | (If) he is ill in the middle of the middle surface of the 'finger': enemy which will attack the king... |
| obverse 7 | (If) there is not a... in the middle surface of the 'path' on the left of the 'path': the enemy's land will die. The wells, trees, and treasury will die and the front. |
| obverse 5 | (If) he is stricken in the middle surface of the 'finger': there will be a 'foot'-mark in the centre of the city. The army will seize the enemy's troops and... the enemy's troops. |
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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