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K 06485 (P396569)
CANONICAL > Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06485 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396569 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination |
| 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 14' | He has taken it as a loan. |
| obverse 3' | ... Mercury or the head approaches Mars |
| reverse 7' | When in the evening, the day is overcast, may a libation-vessel be made for him. |
| obverse 4' | ... the scepter of Zibanitu |
| obverse 2' | ........................................... |
| obverse 7' | ... who sees me, |
| reverse 12' | Give me a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious days! |
| reverse 13' | In the year, as long as her days are long, |
| reverse 2' | Witnesses: Sîn and ama of Addaru and Ululu. |
| obverse 6' | ... a god stands inside it. |
| obverse 8' | ... he smote |
| reverse 8' | For the remission of the debts and the revocation of the loan, |
| reverse 4' | May the itqultu of the Pleiades and the moon be seen together with you. |
| reverse 6' | When the moon becomes visible on the day of disappearance of the moon, |
| reverse 9' | and a third (time) |
| obverse 5' | He speaks truth in the land : the son will speak the truth with his father. |
| reverse 10' | You take 12 months into your hands, so that the days are long. |
| reverse 3' | The nipu and the eyes of the moon are surrounded and they are seen. |
| obverse 1' | ... the judgment of the stars of the field |
| reverse 1' | (and) their utterances, the head of the Field |
| reverse 11' | You sweep the ziggurat of the Pleiades and the Moon. |
| reverse 5' | of the year, its months, its days will be long and you will be well. |
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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