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Nisaba 2, pl. IX 1 (P396831)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 2, pl. IX 1 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396831 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 1' | If its left horn is seen with the worms: there will be death in the land. |
| 23' | If its horns on the right and the left horns are split: the princes will become happy. |
| 19' | If its left horn is thick: ditto: attack of the enemy. |
| 15' | If its right horn is thin and Venus stands in its right horn. |
| 5' | If its left horn is pointed and its right horn is pointed: the heavens will make the decision of the land. |
| 11' | If its left horn is thin and an eclipse will take place. |
| 22' | If its left horn is split: the enemy will not acquire a rival. |
| 6' | If its right horn is pointed and the star.... |
| 0' | If its right horn is seen with.... |
| 16' | If its left horn is thin and Venus stands in its right horn. |
| 24' | .... they saw no truth in the Westland. |
| 4' | If its right horn is pointed and its left horn is pointed: the heavens will hear the news of the land. |
| 2' | If its right horn is bent and its left horn is pointed: the heavens will hear the news of the lands. |
| 21' | If its right horn is split: the prince will not acquire a rival. |
| 10' | If its right horn is thin and the stars surround it: a second year... |
| 25' | If... does not know... in Akkad |
| 20' | (If) ditto: he will acquire sesame. |
| 3' | If its left horn is bent and its left horn is pointed: the heavens will make the news of the land. |
| 8' | If its left horn is long....... |
| 13' | If its right horn is thin and Jupiter stands in its right horn: the throne will change. |
| 7' | If its right horn is long....... |
| 9' | If its right horn is thin and an eclipse takes place:.... |
| 14' | If its left horn is thin and Jupiter stands at its right side. |
| 29' | If...: there will be... to KUR. |
| 27' | ................. |
| 26' | If....... he will restore the land of Amurru. |
| 18' | the price of the land Amurru was small |
| 12' | If the horn of his left horn is low and the stars of her left horn are pointed: the 'third year' of the land will eat food. |
| 28' | If..... there will be... to the land of... |
| 17' | If its right horn is thick, ditto: he will become frightened. |
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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