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CT 40, pl. 31, K 05657 (P396068)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 31, K 05657 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396068 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | If a man enters a man's house: he will die. |
| 2' | That city... |
| 8' | If an ox enters a man's house and... in its horn.... |
| 3' | If an ox comes close to a donkey.... |
| 9' | If in a man's house, an ox's nose... afterwards.... |
| 6' | If a man enters a man's house and.... |
| 11' | If an ox at its appearance is located on the right side of its front: he will reach the highest rank. |
| 4' | If an ox rams into a donkey.... |
| 13' | (If) the oxen in the halo will be killed. |
| 1' | If an ox enters a man's house and... inside it |
| 12' | That ox is surrounded by a halo. |
| 7' | ... |
| 10' | ... the owner of the house, his property... |
| 14' | ... is surrounded by a white halo. |
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- 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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