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K 06458 (P396551)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06458 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396551 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial |
| 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 19' | If a solar disk is located in the land: ditto. |
| obverse 16' | If he sees a rainbow in the land. |
| obverse 11' | If the earth quakes |
| obverse 7' | If on the wall of the temple a god is seen like a statue |
| obverse 12' | It is favourable. |
| obverse 21' | If a bird, either a fish or a fish or a zermantu-bird |
| reverse 4 | If ditto he plunders |
| obverse 8' | If ditto, ditto: he will become happy. |
| obverse 4' | If he is ill for a long time... |
| obverse 23' | If the earth quakes: death. |
| obverse 27' | If his head hurts him: |
| obverse 9' | If ditto, ditto, like a lion, |
| reverse 13 | If a woman is ill and she is ill in the bed: |
| obverse 14' | Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint in the land. |
| obverse 20' | ...... are present. |
| obverse 13' | If the omens are swollen: he will die. |
| obverse 25' | If a dog in a city ditto |
| reverse 15 | If a man's tongue is swollen in his body: he will see the head. |
| obverse 18' | If an anomaly - there will be frost in the land. |
| obverse 22' | Whoever breaks the contract shall have no legal claim in the land. |
| reverse 6 | If ditto he goes to his companion. |
| obverse 17' | If meat is seen in the land. |
| reverse 2 | If ditto.... |
| reverse 18 | If a woman's hands are seized: |
| reverse 14 | If a woman's ilatu-disease comes? |
| obverse 24' | If there is a reed in the land of the houses and palaces: ditto. |
| reverse 16 | If ditto his eyes become dark: he will die. |
| obverse 10' | If a palace is not like a lion |
| reverse 19 | ... in the house(?) |
| reverse 7 | If ditto his interest is diminished |
| reverse 12 | If ditto his feet which are on the right side ditto. |
| obverse 3' | If he is ill...:.... |
| reverse 8 | If ditto, his beer will be rich. |
| reverse 10 | If ditto for the front ditto. |
| reverse 5 | If ditto he constantly trembles: |
| obverse 5' | If ditto his limbs... |
| obverse 6' | If ditto his limbs... |
| reverse 9 | If ditto (a man, when walking,) his bed reaches his bed. |
| reverse 20 | If ditto....... |
| reverse 21 | If ditto....... |
| reverse 1 | If a man is stricken in his sleep: |
| reverse 3 | If ditto his flesh hurts him: |
| reverse 17 | If ditto his mouth is light: |
| obverse 15' | If anything is not present in the land: in the city. |
| obverse 26' | If a fire falls from the sky to the temple of a god and... everything. |
| obverse 2' | If a dog... |
| reverse 11 | If ditto his hands are covered on the right side. |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
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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