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K 06998 (P396955)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 06998 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396955 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | ... stands with the feet of the Old Man... |
| 5' | If the Moon in Seleucia... a chariot |
| 14' | : his ritual assemblage... |
| 11' | If the Moon at its appearance is surrounded by a horn: the land will become happy. |
| 15' | If the Moon at its appearance wears a crown in its belly |
| 7' | If the Moon at its appearance is dark(?): restitution for Akkad. |
| 2' | ... an eclipse takes place and... |
| 4' | ......... |
| 10' | : a black star stands with it. : To be distant?... |
| 12' | (If) an eclipse takes place and the horn... and.... |
| 8' | (If) a king dies and the king does not die: there will be hunger in the land. |
| 1' | ... in the heavens(?) |
| 3' | If the Moon in the sky is surrounded by a cloudy halo: the barley will be piled up.... |
| 13' | If the Moon at its appearance wears a crown in its belly....... |
| 9' | there will be famine and hunger in the land; the land will... in front of it.... |
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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