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AAT pl. 12 (K 05281) (P395974)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Sîn (EAE 1–22), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AAT pl. 12 (K 05281) |
|---|---|
| ID | P395974 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Sîn (EAE 1–22) |
| 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 9 | If the Moon at its appearance, at its right horn, a cloudburst. |
| reverse 6' | (In) abau (Month XI), the 12th day, eponymy of Mutakkil-Aur, governor of the throne(?) |
| reverse 1' | If on the 3rd day of Nisannu (I) on the 1st day its right horn is pointed(?): the heavens will bring news of that year: the land will diminish. |
| reverse 7' | 16th? year of Sargon (II), after the king of Assyria |
| obverse 1 | If the Moon at its appearance a star stands in its left side: the king will exercise world dominion. That land will be destroyed. |
| reverse 2' | He will go to the land of the young man for life. The king will reach his land and he will make the property of his land disappear. |
| reverse 8' | and the fourth? year of the king of Babylon. |
| obverse 2 | If a star stands inside it: deaths will take place and the moon will devour the land. |
| obverse 4 | If the Pleiades stand in its right horn: death in Amurru. |
| reverse 5' | Bt-ilni, chief scribe of Calah. |
| obverse 7 | If the Moon at its appearance is surrounded by a halo: in that year the king of the land will make a good fortune for the land. |
| reverse 4' | Tablet of Nabû-zuqup-ukn, son of Marduk-umu-iqa, the scribe. |
| obverse 6 | If the Pleiades stand in front of it: the land.... |
| obverse 5 | If the Pleiades stand in its left horn: in Akkad there will be death. |
| reverse 3' | It is the 6th tablet. |
| obverse 8 | If the Shepherd stands inside it: the king will exercise world dominion. |
| obverse 3 | If the Pleiades stand in its horns: deaths will occur. |
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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