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K 06311 (P396445)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06311 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396445 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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? 12' | ... 2 (times) I slew the sanctuaries of the enemy with the Weapon of the enemy in all day. |
| obverse? 9' | .............. |
| obverse? 3' | ... and with a weapon his right hand he shall make strong. |
| obverse? 5' | ... strong....: a hostile enemy will take away my fate. |
| obverse? 4' | ................... and emerges |
| reverse? 9' | ... 2 times, you recite the incantations. |
| obverse? 10' | ............................. |
| reverse? 3' | ... come out to... and |
| reverse? 4' | ...... and the death of the Westland |
| obverse? 6' | ... there will be famine of the land, their famine will diminish. |
| reverse? 6' | (If) the flood afflicts me: the lord of the throne will be negligent; he will not make a lord of the throne. |
| reverse? 1' | ... the god(?) to(?) the eretu(?) |
| obverse? 11' | ... one (time) passes by. The city will seize the right of the enemy, and the enemy will pluck up the land. |
| obverse? 14' | ... unceasing... |
| reverse? 7' | '(If) Mu’uta eats it, and it is good. |
| obverse? 8' | ... the enemy will go out and come out. |
| reverse? 2' | ... to go out |
| reverse? 11' | ... the great prince |
| reverse? 13' | ......... |
| reverse? 8' | ... one man will become rich and take (it) to a very many place. |
| obverse? 15' | ... the enemy will seize my seat in a city. |
| obverse? 7' | he will have... and he will strengthen his right shoulder with his weapon. |
| reverse? 10' | ...... his gods will seize him, his wild bulls will seize him. |
| obverse? 13' | ... who does not abandon me, |
| reverse? 5' | ... the steppe whose hands are 1 in number, the enemy which my guards abandoned |
| obverse? 1' | ... I will kill |
| obverse? 17' | ... troops(?) |
| obverse? 16' | ... of a city... you seize a enemy's... and you pound. |
| reverse? 12' | ... he will return the land |
| obverse? 2' | ... the enemy will take away his fate... |
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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