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K.6245 (P396405)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Adad (EAE 36–49), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K.6245 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396405 |
| Museum no. | K.6245 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Adad (EAE 36–49) |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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 col 1 4' | (If) in the... of the throne: the king(?) will kill his brothers. |
| obverse col 1 16' | ... ama emerges to the sky and the land (means): it is favourable. |
| obverse col 1 14' | If Adad is red in the middle of ama: rains will diminish. |
| obverse col 1 7' | (If) the gods are darkened: there will be lightning and famine in the land. |
| obverse col 1 21' | If Adad thunders in the middle of the Scales and a rainbow.... |
| obverse col 1 9' | You crush it in a cloister and you recite the incantation 'heart'. |
| obverse col 1 1' | ... 5 years... will prosper; the harvest will be plentiful. |
| obverse col 1 12' | If Adad is scattered in the middle of a city |
| obverse col 1 10' | If Adad thunders in the middle of the lung: there will be merciful in the land. |
| obverse col 1 3' | If Adad reaches the middle of the Scorpion: 23 years the king.... |
| obverse col 1 17' | ... Blet-il, the lands, in battle |
| obverse col 1 22' | ... red lightning flashed on his right... |
| obverse col 1 15' | If Adad reaches the middle of ama: 67 years will rain in their Apsu. |
| obverse col 1 23' | ... he will die. The king will have mercy on his people and his people. |
| obverse col 1 19' | ... anyone, shepherd, anyone, will take away anything. |
| obverse col 1 6' | 27 days... and... you go. |
| obverse col 1 2' | If Adad reaches the middle of the Bow: the furrow will overwhelm her. |
| obverse col 1 18' | ... in the middle of the city the king enters and |
| obverse col 1 5' | If Adad rises in the middle of the sheepfold and the sheepfold rises with the ground. |
| obverse col 1 11' | If Adad is scattered in the middle of a flood: the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| obverse col 1 20' | If Adad thunders in the middle of the Scales: the gods will have mercy on the land. |
| obverse col 1 8' | (gloss: break)...... will not become stable; there will be death in the land. |
| obverse col 1 13' | If Adad... in the middle of ama: he will recover. The land will be devastated and he will die. |
Sources & licences
- 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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