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K 05743 (P396133)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05743 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396133 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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 16' | If the Well-beings are like.... |
| reverse 1 | If the Well-being...... |
| reverse 3 | If.... |
| reverse 11 | (If) the Moon... to the sun:.... |
| obverse 9' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder and the weapons.... |
| obverse 17' | If....... |
| obverse 25' | If an anomaly does not have a rib-bone: a reign of... |
| reverse 8 | If the Well-being reaches its normal length:.... |
| obverse 19' | ... |
| obverse 2' | If... stone.... |
| reverse 2 | In the mouth of |
| obverse 7' | If there is a 'foot'-mark on the left side of the lung,... as a sign. |
| reverse 6 | If there is a 'foot'-mark on the left side of the lung,... |
| obverse 4' | If 2 pigs are present and....... |
| obverse 8' | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'finger',... |
| obverse 18' | If a finger has come close and...... |
| obverse 13' | If....... |
| obverse 22' | If the Well-beings are thin: robbery... |
| obverse 14' | If.......... |
| obverse 26' | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'finger' (?), the man(?) will... in front of his... |
| obverse 24' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder: 2 feet, 2 horns, 2 horns, 2 horns, 2 horns?, 2 horns?... |
| obverse 21' | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'weapon'-mark |
| obverse 12' | ...... and its rear is black... |
| obverse 20' | If the Well-being is like the imukku-plant and the horse of the gall bladder and the horn.... |
| obverse 1' | If....... |
| reverse 10 | If the Well-being is surrounded by a halo: the barley will be piled up.... |
| obverse 15' | If the Well-beings are like.... |
| obverse 10' | If ditto and in its midst there are weapons and weapons.... |
| obverse 23' | If the Well-beings are white:.... |
| obverse 5' | If the Well-beings are like Imukki and.... |
| obverse 11' | If ditto and in its midst the weapons are stricken and... |
| obverse 6' | If there is a 'foot'-mark on the right side of the lung, meat... |
| reverse 5 | If... barley....... |
| reverse 12 | If the right side of the 'finger'... |
| obverse 3' | If the Well-being... like....... |
| reverse 9 | Elam |
| reverse 13 | If its left horn... |
| reverse 7 | Total: 1 uu... |
| reverse 4 | If............. |
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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