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CT 40, pl. 22, K 06940 (P396915)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 22, K 06940 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396915 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 1' | ... bed |
| 6' | ......... |
| 3' | ... on a man's bed... |
| 10' | If a snake is surrounded by a snake and its mouth... |
| 11' | ... enters a man's house |
| 8' | ... on the 1st day, on the 1st day: he will be well. |
| 2' | .... a bed of... |
| 12' | If a snake eats a ghost's snake in the mouth of a fox:.... |
| 4' | ... that house will be destroyed |
| 13' | ... that house will die and that house will be destroyed. |
| 14' | That house will die, the house.... |
| 17' | ......... that man... |
| 15' | If a snake enters a man's body: a daughter will die.... |
| 16' | If a snake - its head in the middle of a pigeon... |
| 5' | ... on the throne you put... on the throne. |
| 7' | ... on the throne... |
| 9' | ... kills... whatever is in his mouth, and a man's house will be destroyed. |
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- 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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