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K 05877 (P396226)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05877 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396226 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 21' | If ditto a snake enters the street of a man's house: that house will be good. |
| 17' | If ditto (a snake) kills a man in a man's house and |
| 15' | If ditto (a snake) kills a man in a man's house and he enters the house. |
| 9' | (If) ditto (he enters a city and) he goes to the ground: in that city will be good. |
| 7' | ... ditto... in that city |
| 3' | ... the heart of the city |
| 13' | Ditto: he will kill a snake in a man's house and go out to the gate. |
| 1' | ... entered the city(?) |
| 14' | If ditto a snake is killed in a man's house and enters.... |
| 26' | If ditto in a house.... |
| 12' | Ditto: he will kill a snake in a man's house; he will kill a man's house. |
| 10' | (If) ditto he enters a city...: that city will be seized. |
| 24' | If ditto a man is seized by a man: his god will die. |
| 25' | If ditto in a man's house...... will kill.... |
| 2' | ...... city |
| 8' | Ditto; they enter the city from east to west. That city is an abode of... |
| 19' | If ditto there are snakes in a man's house: that house will be destroyed. |
| 4' | ... he brought out... in that city: there will be nindanu-disease and sar. |
| 16' | If ditto (a snake) kills a man in a man's house and he falls into the presence of a man: he will die. |
| 6' | ... heart of the city |
| 18' | If he is ill, he will die and the property of a man will take. |
| 23' | If ditto he constantly seeks out his wife before a man: |
| 5' | ... he brought out and the heart of that city was happy. |
| 27' | If ditto in a house(?) |
| 20' | If ditto a snake is killed in a man's house and he eats it for a long time. |
| 11' | (If) ditto he enters a... house: that house will dwell. |
| 22' | If ditto in front of a man - he will kill a snake and he will eat it. |
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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