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BOC pl. 51 K 06802+ (P396810)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BOC pl. 51 K 06802+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P396810 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 14' | ... your female slave from month I of the year... |
| obverse 6' | or two months or one year they shall divide with her. |
| reverse 11' | Disregard that a clean or an unclean person has touched the extispicy on the first day. |
| obverse 2' | ... your great divinity is named. |
| reverse 10' | The evildoer curses him, they curse him, and he is ill. |
| reverse 2' | ... your great divinity... |
| obverse 10' | ama, lord of judgments, Adad, lord of judgments, ama, great lord, whom I ask you |
| reverse 7' | I am the IR-ka, son of a haruspex who is not |
| obverse 4' | [Disregard that an unclean man or woman has come near the place of the extispicy and made it unclean]. |
| obverse 17' | ...... |
| obverse 11' | In my true stead, my utterance has slighted you, I shall smite you. |
| reverse 5' | ... he set up, and her foundations he set up. |
| reverse 14' | The curse... from... |
| obverse 8' | he will raise a claim, or he will raise a claim against him, or he will die. |
| reverse 12' | Disregard that an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep,....... |
| obverse 7' | Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the woman is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments. |
| reverse 8' | Disregard that the incantation of god and goddess is deficient or faulty. |
| obverse 13' | O lord, her verdicts are favorable, her verdicts are favorable. |
| obverse 15' | Month Nisannu (I), eponym year of the eribtu-priestess. |
| reverse 4' | ... ama, who... life, |
| reverse 6' | Be present in this ram, place (in it) a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious omens by the oracular command of your great divinity. |
| obverse 3' | I am your lord, the son of a haruspex who does not have the strength of ama and the Adad, and |
| obverse 16' | ......: the day and the night will be long. |
| reverse 9' | (If) she is ill for her, she will die in her womb. |
| reverse 13' | The meadows which he has seen... |
| reverse 3' | ... is well. Food,...... |
| obverse 12' | You are the... of Salmanu, the daughter of so-and-so, the wife of so-and-so, your maid. |
| obverse 9' | He swore an awe-inspiring radiance with Nennu, her wife. |
| obverse 5' | of the gods (and) goddesses is upon her. |
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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