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K 06463 + K 12271 (P396554)
CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu; CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06463 + K 12271 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396554 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu; CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 3' | If a sow gives birth and it is black: its owner will prosper. |
| 16' | If a sow gives birth and it is covered in wool: the days of its owner will be long. |
| 6' | If a sow gives birth and it is yellow: her owner will die. |
| 10' | If a pig gives birth and its heads are 3 in the house of his owner. |
| 13' | If a sow gives birth to a sow: the land will seize. |
| 1' | If a sow gives birth to 30 piglets and it is provided with a... mouth: the king will rule the land. |
| 14' | If a sow gives birth and it is covered in wool: its owner will recover. |
| 4' | If a sow gives birth and it is covered in red blood: its heart. |
| 9' | If a sow gives birth and its heads are 2: a sow will devour the house's owner. |
| 5' | If a sow gives birth and there are talent in the halo of the house:... will be scattered. |
| 17' | If a sow gives birth and it is covered with white wool: the days of its owner will be with a god. |
| 8' | If a sow gives birth and its feet are swollen: a man's house will be destroyed. |
| 15' | If a sow gives birth and it is covered in wool: the house of its lord will be destroyed. |
| 12' | If a sow gives birth and their heads are swollen: her owner will be satisfied. |
| 7' | If a sow gives birth and their feet are swollen: that house will be destroyed. |
| 2' | If a sow gives birth and it is white: its owner will be happy. |
| 11' | If a sow gives birth and it does not have a head: there will be a famine, and its house will be scattered. |
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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