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K 06211 (P396385)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06211 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396385 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 11 | If a equid and the Crook... on the side of |
| obverse 4' | If Marduk's star is very yellow: there will be famine in the land. |
| obverse 12' | If the Marduk-star becomes visible in the beginning of the year. That year the furrows will be overcast. |
| obverse 5' | If Marduk's Year is very dark: deaths. |
| obverse 10' | If Marduk is a mehu-star, ditto Nergal (is) his name, Ea (is) his enemies, Adad (is) his rains. |
| obverse 9' | If the Bristle afflicts the Pleiades: the land will eat food. The gods.... |
| reverse 8 | If the Lion stands above the Kidney Star.... |
| obverse 15' | If the Bristle is red: the throne will prosper. : If the Bristle approaches the Field |
| reverse 10 | If the Field and the Crook - the side of.... |
| reverse 13 | Its name....... |
| reverse 6 | If the Lion reaches the Lion: the days will be long.... |
| obverse 6' | If Marduk's horn is yellow: an eclipse... |
| obverse 13' | If the Pleiades become visible in the beginning of the year with the Moon and the Moon.... |
| reverse 12 | If the field and the Crook... |
| obverse 11' | ... there will be truth in the land; the son will speak the truth with his father... |
| reverse 5 | If the Lion reaches the path of ama:.... |
| reverse 1 | If a planet rises, the Pleiades... |
| reverse 14 | If a man conquered the path of ama |
| reverse 9 | If the Field and the Crook... on the side of |
| reverse 4 | If the Kidney Star is dark: the bird will rage in the sky (and) Adad. |
| reverse 3 | If the Kidney Star reaches the Shepherd of Anu |
| reverse 7 | If the Lion and the Lion stand in front of.... |
| obverse 2' | If the Bristle emerges at its appearance: Elam will be destroyed and the land. |
| obverse 3' | If Marduk's star is very red: abundance. |
| reverse 2 | If a planet... with the Pleiades.... |
| obverse 8' | For 2 shekels of silver is the price of the enemy's oil; he will die and the land will be destroyed. |
| obverse 1' | If the Lion, when it emerges, a man(?)... in front of it |
| obverse 14' | If the Pleiades of Marduk become visible and in... |
| obverse 7' | If the Well-being of Marduk reaches the eponymy of the land: in the midst of the gods 50, Ea and... |
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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