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K 07026 (P396974)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 07026 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396974 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 12' | That man will be seized. |
| obverse 10' | If ditto (a field in) the town... ditto: he will experience hardship. |
| obverse 7' | ... there will be. |
| obverse 5' | If ditto (it is located in the field of the city), ditto (it is located) in the city: the gods will return (it). |
| obverse 9' | If ditto (a field in the city)... he is ill(?) in a city: he will not live (in it). |
| reverse 7 | If ditto (it is located in the field of the city): a reed bed. |
| obverse 6' | If ditto (he is ill in the field of the city): he will die. |
| obverse 8' | If ditto (a field in) the town... ditto (i.e., the area of the city).... |
| reverse 6 | that man will become numerous. |
| obverse 12 | .... eyewitness. |
| obverse 11' | If ditto (a field in the city): sesame, ditto; he will recover. |
| reverse 5 | If ditto (a datepalm in the middle of the city): datepalm, ditto. |
| obverse 4' | After it, it will be scattered. |
| obverse 3' | If barley is piled in the field of the city: ditto (he will die) with weapons. |
| reverse 2 | to his limbs he will die. |
| reverse 3 | If ditto (it is located in the field of the city): chariotry, ditto. |
| reverse 9 | ...... |
| reverse 4 | That man will be well. |
| reverse 1 | If ditto (it is located in the field of the city): an asallu-wood tree. |
| obverse 2' | ...... |
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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