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K 06222 (P396391)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06222 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396391 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | there will be barley and sesame in the land. The equivalent (for 1 shekel of silver is): 1 kurru. |
| 10' | Enlil, his stronghold, the four quarters (of the world)... the lands like one, Nergal, with the enemy troops... |
| 12' | If Dilbat enters the star of Marduk: the land of Akkad will diminish |
| 9' | (If) they are strong (and) strong in the land: there will be famine. |
| 4' | its name is red, its name is red like the name of ama, all the angry gods. |
| 13' | If until the tablet of the year Venus enters the moon: the king's word to Sin.... |
| 16' | ... raises... |
| 14' | ... rains, not good... |
| 8' | If the year of Marduk is located in the sky like a star: the land of Akkad will be full of radiance. |
| 2' | If the star of Marduk is surrounded by a halo: in that month... |
| 11' | ... will guard me... |
| 7' | (If) he does not raise his neck, in the land of Elam there will be famine. Ea will bring his men to Gutium. |
| 15' | ... Ea in Apsu |
| 6' | If the name of Marduk is in his name, he is white and he is present in the land of Akkad: evil... will be released. |
| 3' | If the star of Marduk rises in Sivan (III) and when ama stands there: 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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