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K 05348b + K 10202 (P396004)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05348b + K 10202 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396004 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 6' | If a fire flashes from the sky and |
| reverse 8' | If his head swollen, he will die. |
| obverse 5' | If a sheep approaches a pig: the household of a man |
| obverse 13' | ...... in a city house |
| obverse 9' | (If) he is surrounded by a halo: he will kill a man's house. |
| reverse 9' | If a man is stricken in his body: he will recover. |
| obverse 12' | If a horse approaches an ox: destruction of the cattle-pen. |
| reverse 5' | If a fire is seen in a god's temple: that god's temple will be destroyed. |
| reverse 3' | If snakes stand in the middle of the city and the people of the land will die. |
| obverse 11' | there will be a strong flood in the land. |
| reverse 1' | If... either a bird or a fish or a mammu-bird or a zermandu-vessel which no one can see in the land. |
| obverse 8' | If a storm approaches a horse: the king will die. |
| obverse 10' | If a donkey approaches an ox: the man's house |
| obverse 3' | If a sow approaches the sheep: Adad will devastate the cattle of the land. |
| obverse 7' | (If) ditto: he will kill a man's house. |
| reverse 4' | The third year, the weapon of Irra, the mighty(?) enemy, |
| obverse 14' | ... not... |
| reverse 7' | That land Enlil set up. |
| reverse 2' | (If) he is seized by a hostile enemy: the land which is not seized.... |
| obverse 1' | If a sow approaches a dog: there will be large pigs. |
| obverse 4' | If a sheep approaches a dog: the enemy will seize the land. |
| obverse 2' | Incantation(?): that city will go out(?) |
| obverse 6' | If an ox comes close to a donkey: the land will give birth to a lion. |
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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