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CT 28, pl. 35, K 09713 (P396850)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 28, pl. 35, K 09713 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396850 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 14' | If a woman gives birth to 1 kurru: that house will be destroyed. That city will be destroyed. The king's army will not make an attack on that land. |
| reverse 7' | If pigs and their hands are stricken: fall of troops. |
| reverse 5' | If pigs in the street ditto and their tails are swollen: attack of the troops; the enemy's troops will come. |
| reverse 9' | If a pig gives birth to a pig at the side of the city, that city will be abandoned and destroyed. |
| reverse 11' | If a sorcery is located and enters the city: fall of my troops. |
| reverse 1' | If he is a pig, he will enter a man's house for a long time. |
| reverse 12' | If a ahgtu-plant is located in front of a star: the enemy will attack. |
| reverse 6' | If the intestines are stricken: the house of their lord will become stable. |
| reverse 8' | If the pigs are covered in the brickwork of the man's house: that house will be built. |
| reverse 15' | On the 22nd day: he will die. |
| reverse 10' | If a pig comes close to the centre of the city: that city will be destroyed. |
| reverse 2' | If pigs are stricken and have a tail on a man's neck: that man will become ill. |
| reverse 4' | If there are pigs in the middle of the 'finger' ditto, their tails will rage against them. |
| reverse 13' | If a ahaggiu-plant grows in the land: attack of the king. |
| reverse 16' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 3' | If he sees pigs in the street and he is ill: wind. |
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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