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K 05878 (P396227)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05878 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396227 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| 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 20' | in a house...: death will be favourable. |
| reverse 2' | ...... |
| obverse 6' | If ditto...................... |
| obverse 3' | ...... of the god... that man will experience happiness. |
| obverse 13' | That man is a robbery. |
| obverse 15' | That man will not go on a campaign and he will die. |
| obverse 5' | If ditto... a man's eyes are dark: that man will become ill. |
| obverse 11' | If ditto (a man)......: he will go on a campaign. |
| obverse 10' | If ditto (a man)... in his body..... |
| obverse 14' | If a man is ill for a second time: he will die and he will see blood. |
| obverse 9' | If ditto (a man) goes on a road to the hand of a man: the god will devastate him. |
| obverse 2' | ...... his |
| obverse 12' | If a man - after he is ill, he will experience famine. |
| obverse 8' | If ditto...... that man will die at that time. |
| reverse 3' | ...... |
| obverse 1' | ... over(?)... the god |
| obverse 16' | If he sees a lizard in a man's house...... he will die. |
| obverse 17' | If ditto in a man's house... |
| reverse 1' | ... mountain/netherworld |
| obverse 19' | If ditto a man's house... is full of rage. |
| obverse 18' | ....... |
| obverse 4' | ... that land will end. |
| obverse 7' | If ditto............. |
| obverse 21' | If ditto... in the camp....... |
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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