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Nisaba 2, pl. VII 9 (P396628)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Sîn (EAE 1–22), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 2, pl. VII 9 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396628 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Sîn (EAE 1–22) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 12' | ... she will seize her lungs... |
| 13' | ... the south wind : |
| 5' | If the Moon at its appearance is white and : it is bright: its horns will be broken. |
| 6' | ... after me, the lower.... |
| 8' | ...... the throne will die or the great army will fall. Ditto or the king... |
| 15' | .... (If) ditto: he will be satisfied. |
| 14' | ... is long... |
| 7' | If the Moon at its appearance appears red and its horns are bent: the king will seize.... |
| 3' | If the Moon at its appearance is red: its horns will be scattered; the land will have peace. The field.... |
| 11' | ... and its horns are bent... |
| 10' | ...... he will die : fall.... |
| 2' | ... rises: the land will seize its throne in triumph and... will seize the enemy. :... |
| 9' | ... and its horns are swollen: there will be famine (and) famine in the land. |
| 4' | ...... :... |
| 1' | ... saw... and |
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- 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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