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K 05956 + 1881-02-04, 0322 (P396289)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Adad (EAE 36–49), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05956 + 1881-02-04, 0322 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396289 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Adad (EAE 36–49) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | If in Ayyaru (Month I), there will be famine and famine in the field. |
| 1' | ... field(?) |
| 6' | If in Simanu (Month III), sesame and dates are not collected |
| 8' | If in Abu (Month V) a man gives birth to a king and it is provided with a king’s brother. |
| 2' | If in Addaru (Month XII) the south wind blows and locusts(?) |
| 12' | If in Kislimu (Month IX) Adad(?) will devastate |
| 18' | ... rises and the harvest of the land... |
| 14' | If in abau (Month XI)... there will be... in the land. |
| 9' | If in Ululu (Month VI) there is a 'foot'-mark: a garden will be seized. |
| 7' | If in Duuzu (Month IV) a man is ill: the son of the king will seize the throne. |
| 4' | (Property) of (the god) Adad will (then) rage like a fire against the fire. |
| 3' | If in Nisannu (I) Adad thunders: the day is overcast, rain (and) rain. |
| 13' | If in ebtu (Month X) there will be... in the land |
| 11' | If in Arasamna (Month VIII),... will prosper and the harvest of the land will prosper |
| 16' | If in Nisannu (Month I)..... |
| 17' | ... sesame and dates are present. |
| 10' | If in Taritu (Month VII), the king... in the evening: the people will eat their flesh. |
| 15' | If in Addaru (XII).............. |
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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