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BPO 4, 202 A, K 05889 (P396234)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BPO 4, 202 A, K 05889 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396234 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 12' | ... with Gilgamesh, who goes to the heart of the land, |
| 2' | If Jupiter sets in front of Mars: there will be famine in the land and there will be famine. |
| 10' | (If) ditto... is wide: he will expand in Akkad. |
| 8' | its... in that year, the king of Akkad will die and the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| 5' | If Jupiter and Mars die, a cloudburst in that year will kill and the land will be kept secure; there will be no good in the land. |
| 15' | ... in front of ama. |
| 14' | ... goats of the land will be destroyed |
| 6' | ... they have been able to eat a censer. : The censers have been set upon the land. |
| 7' | ...... : he will die. There will be deaths in the land. |
| 11' | ...... : DIB-iq (means) there will be hostilities in the land. |
| 13' | If Jupiter approaches Jupiter: the lions will be killed. |
| 9' | ... the Yoke Constellation, its radiance is not favourable. |
| 16' | ............ |
| 17' | ......... |
| 4' | ... there will be... in the land. He will die and the great army will be plundered. |
| 1' | ...... |
| 3' | If Jupiter stands in front of Mars: there will be barley in the land and he will die. |
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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