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AfO 17, pl. 05 (P396301)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AfO 17, pl. 05 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396301 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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 4 | The gods who dwell on the night, |
| obverse 7 | (If) the Moon... a fate... decisions for heaven and earth |
| reverse 7' | he entrusted to the god |
| obverse 6 | Night of the day, they sat down, the month and year became old. |
| reverse 3' | Tablet of Ubar-kalu/kalu?, the a-gii-official(?) |
| obverse 8 | If in Iyyar (II) on the 14th day an eclipse takes place: the moon will take place. |
| reverse 4' | (Property) of ulmanu-sag, king(?) |
| obverse 5 | the stars of their tribute have been guarded, let me live. |
| reverse 2' | Who knows how to live, who knows how to live, who knows how to live, who knows how to live. |
| reverse 1' | Written and checked according to the original. |
| reverse 6' | the head of the moon was not covered... |
| obverse 3 | he established, the nanzaza-priests he made complete, the gigala-priests |
| obverse 2 | they created heaven and earth, they swore a sign |
| reverse 5' | (is) the son of Gula-zru-uur |
| obverse 1 | When Anu, Enlil, and Ea, the great gods |
| reverse 8' | (As for) the one who grows up, the god |
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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