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ACh Suppl. 2 Ishtar 72 K 06478 (P396515)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ACh Suppl. 2 Ishtar 72 K 06478 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396515 |
| 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 19' | If the Field reaches the Pabilsag: people will fall and his brother will die. |
| obverse 15 | If a star... |
| obverse 30' | If Venus in the middle of |
| obverse 35' | If the Bristle reaches the Bristle: there will be famine in the land. |
| obverse 23 | ...... |
| obverse 14 | If he is a young man |
| obverse 27' | If his stars in....... |
| reverse 5' | Mars... |
| reverse 33' | Tablet of Marduk-allim-ahhe, the a arru-priest |
| reverse 22' | If the Bristle to Itar |
| reverse 23' | ...... |
| reverse 7' | If Mars... to the Snake |
| reverse 2' | If the Bristle |
| reverse 3' | If the Bristle |
| reverse 1' | If the Bristle |
| reverse 11' | When the weapon of Akkad |
| reverse 13' | ... his strong..., his... |
| obverse 16 | ... |
| obverse 18 | ... |
| obverse 19 | The star(?) |
| obverse 28' | If Venus... on the back |
| obverse 17 | If.... |
| reverse 28' | If the Fish approaches the Field |
| reverse 26' | If the Fish, the Arrow, Nunu and Annuntu |
| reverse 35' | son of Bl-kn-il, the chief scribe |
| reverse 24' | If a fish... the star |
| reverse 16' | If the Fish... its stars |
| reverse 17' | If the Old Man reaches the Field: the sea will fall and its flood will be destroyed. |
| reverse 36' | ... temple of Ashur |
| obverse 26' | If the Field.... |
| reverse 21' | in front of a locust,...... |
| obverse 2 | If Venus in the midst of the star |
| reverse 25' | They cut off fish and birds from a canal. |
| reverse 15' | If Ea, his father |
| obverse 24' | If Venus in the midst of |
| reverse 30' | In that month, the moon was eclipsed(?) |
| obverse 34' | If the Bristle reaches the Bristle: hunger. |
| reverse 4' | Nergal(?) |
| reverse 8' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Scorpion |
| reverse 20' | The city was destroyed with the city. Adad... |
| obverse 3 | ...... |
| reverse 29' | there will be famine in the land.... |
| reverse 14' | of Iridu......... |
| reverse 6' | After it, his son...... |
| obverse 33' | If a star.... |
| obverse 29' | If a fish... to a fish for his robbery |
| obverse 36' | ... the Scales.... |
| reverse 18' | If a fish approaches a fish: in the land....... |
| reverse 10' | If arur, argaz, who... the Scorpion |
| reverse 31' | In the mouth of Enlil, the sons of the people |
| reverse 27' | ... fish and birds...... |
| obverse 31' | If a planet to a man |
| obverse 25' | The harvest of the land Amurru is favourable, people living in poverty |
| reverse 9' | In the third year, there will be a strong en[tain] and hahhu-disease of the land. |
| reverse 12' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Capricorn: evil.... |
| reverse 34' | son of Awl-mui, scribe of the temple of Aur. |
| obverse 1 | If the Erua star rises to the Pleiades: Adad will devastate |
| obverse 32' | If a planet and... |
| reverse 32' | 3... of the 'hand'-mark, whose 'hand' is written. |
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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