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Babyloniaca 06, 120-121 (P396643)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Babyloniaca 06, 120-121 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396643 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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 12 | If the Moon on the 4th day... |
| obverse 3' | and? in the afternoon, clouds... |
| reverse 4 | ... house(?) |
| obverse 6' | (If) an eclipse takes place and the people... |
| obverse 4' | If the Moon is dark and like news of the sky.... |
| obverse 7' | If the 3rd, at its appearance, the enemy.... |
| reverse 13 | ... blood |
| reverse 5 | The wall of the enemy... |
| obverse 9' | If the Moon's first appearance... the mountain.... |
| obverse 15' | Enlil, those omens came out from Ekur |
| obverse 8' | ... an eclipse takes place and.... |
| reverse 1 | ... who... forever. |
| reverse 3 | ......... |
| obverse 10' | ... an eclipse takes place and....... |
| reverse 10 | ...... |
| obverse 11' | ... their feet... |
| obverse 1' | If the Moon.......... |
| reverse 9 | If in the month of |
| reverse 8 | If the Moon in....... |
| reverse 14 | If the Moon in Ab (V)... |
| obverse 2' | and all day... |
| reverse 6 | If the Moon....... |
| obverse 14' | If the Moon is Elam: he will enter the Ekur.... |
| reverse 11 | ... in the year |
| obverse 12' | An eclipse of the king... |
| reverse 7 | : in...... |
| reverse 2 | 4 times of month... |
| obverse 13' | An eclipse will take place.... |
| obverse 5' | If the Moon at its appearance is dark: the sky 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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