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K 05940 (P396277)
CANONICAL > Divination > Hemerology, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05940 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396277 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Hemerology |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 9 | .... a case he gave me, |
| reverse 12 | If on the 28th day the moon and sun decide decisions about the land for the great gods(?) |
| reverse 18 | If on the 30th day the moon and sun are in opposition:.... |
| reverse 19 | ... may he enter... |
| reverse 17 | May he bless the moon and the sun.... |
| reverse 8 | If on the 26th day he does not... 3 and 20.... |
| reverse 4 | If on the fourth day he gives his hand to Ninurta and Itar |
| reverse 5 | Ninurta and Ishtar, his great divinity, |
| reverse 2 | If the day reaches the Moon and the sun: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| reverse 15 | ... his prayer... |
| reverse 7 | ... the moon? and? the 2? verdicts of the land |
| reverse 16 | If on the 29th day an eclipse of the moon and sun are not visible:.... |
| reverse 11 | If the moon and sun are in opposition: the land will be scattered. |
| reverse 13 | ... when to the moon and the sun... |
| reverse 1 | If on the 22nd day... an eclipse of the sun(?) |
| reverse 3 | If the moon and sun are in opposition: |
| reverse 14 | May he bless his god, may his god... |
| reverse 6 | If on the 5th day the Moon and sun are in balance: in.... |
| reverse 10 | If on the 27th day the moon and sun... |
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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