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K 06687 (P396731)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06687 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396731 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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 5 | ... goes before ulpaea: there will be hunger in the land. |
| obverse 10' | ... the gods will have mercy on Akkad. |
| reverse 4 | If a star has seen a star: there will be a famine of the king; there will be a famine in the land and the land will be destroyed. |
| reverse 11 | ... prince and people |
| obverse 12' | stands at his left side: a raging rage in the palace of the king; the king's army will diminish; the king's evil will diminish. |
| reverse 6 | ... goes to the presence of ulpae. That year is good. |
| reverse 8 | ... there will be deaths. |
| obverse 9' | ... stand.... |
| reverse 12 | ... he stands... Ea and is good: he will stand on the north side in the hand of Enlil and he will recover. |
| reverse 2 | The king of Elam is strong. |
| reverse 1 | ... of the wall of Nergal, with Marduk, they smote and go. |
| reverse 14 | ... ZI-a |
| reverse 15 | ... there will be hunger |
| reverse 3 | ... it came close to the yellow star. |
| reverse 16 | The great(?) |
| reverse 7 | ...... stands there and stands there: attack of beer against the land. |
| reverse 13 | ... the Kidney Star, the Furrow |
| obverse 13' | The king will become frightened. There will be rain in the land and the throne will not seize him. |
| reverse 9 | there will be... in the land. |
| reverse 10 | there will be... in the land. |
| obverse 11' | If Nergal in... is red: Marduk will eat milk. |
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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