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K 06782 (P396794)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06782 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396794 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | 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) |
|---|---|
| 2' | ... ditto and...... |
| 9' | If a Scorpius is located on a bed and a man ditto: his god will be angry with him. |
| 3' | If a scorpion... a woman ditto and a man ditto.... |
| 11' | If a Scorpion goes in the morning and a man ditto: he will recover. |
| 12' | If a Scorpion in.... |
| 10' | If a scorpion is given over and a man ditto: a man will die in a man's house. The gate of the palace will expand his land. |
| 6' | If a scorpion (gloss: break) in a man's bed: the wife will be seized. |
| 13' | If a scorpion (gloss: break) in a hem and a man ditto: his property will be brought to a man. |
| 14' | (If)... illness(?), ditto: he will recover. |
| 8' | If a scorpion... a table ditto: its foundations will not be firm. |
| 5' | If a Scorpius is located below the bed: a man's bed ditto. |
| 7' | If the feet of the throne of a man ditto: good health. |
| 4' | If the Scorpion is located in the'station' of the 'finger': a woman ditto and a woman ditto.... |
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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