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CT 40, pl. 14, K 07030+ (P396978)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 14, K 07030+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P396978 |
| 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 30' | If ditto... in a hole: that house.... |
| reverse 5' | ... dates, ea-flour... |
| obverse 31 | Ditto: you pound a snake, a black cedar tree, a black alubû-tree, (and) a taqallu-tree. |
| reverse 11' | If ditto (it is seen) in the middle of a mountain: the city will dwell. |
| reverse 9' | If a pig becomes visible in the Pleiades: that pig will become confused. |
| reverse 29' | If ditto (it is seen) in the middle of the house: fall of cattle and sheep and goats. |
| obverse 19 | If ditto (a magnanimous part of the palatial hall) is covered in the ground: the king's son will die and the king's days will be long. |
| reverse 15' | If ditto (a mole is located) in a god's temple: the man's eye will be seen with the man. |
| obverse 35 | You strew 7 and 7 times over a door and a mashku-tree and you strew the namburbû-priest. |
| obverse 14 | If ditto (he is covered in) copper: property of the gate(s) of the house of Itar and he will reside with him in the house of Itar. |
| obverse 20 | If ditto a copper vessel (and) the property of the palace are not in the middle of a threshing floor: the king's servants will kill him. |
| obverse 32 | You pour a libation bowl of oil on the ground. |
| obverse 30 | The 7th is favourable and it is favourable. |
| obverse 24 | If ditto a copper vessel (and) property is torn out: that man's property will be destroyed. |
| obverse 3 | If ditto that of the Apsu is smashed, the king of the land.... |
| reverse 31' | If ditto (a thigh) appears in the middle of the house: the house will be abandoned. |
| obverse 11 | If ditto (a mole is located) on the threshing floor of the gates of the temple of a god ditto and he does not enter the temple of a god: he will recover. |
| obverse 7 | If a ram (is) the property of a god's temple: word of the god... |
| reverse 3' | You crush kurkurru-aromatic substance (and) kamma-aromatic substance one times, and you crush it. |
| obverse 5 | If ditto (a planet carries property) and.... |
| obverse 9 | If ditto a sheep: property of the gate(s) of the temple, ditto (Issanakil) will bring beer. |
| reverse 12' | If a thigh is located in a god's temple: that god's temple will not be split. |
| obverse 2 | the south wind blew... |
| reverse 33' | If a sow gives birth to a man in a man's house: that house.... |
| reverse 34' | If ditto (a mole is located) in the street of the man's house: he will die. |
| obverse 37 | ...... |
| obverse 29 | You strew a lion's skin with the blood of a bird. |
| reverse 14' | If ditto (a thigh) is seen in the house of Itar: there will be hunger. |
| obverse 6 | If ditto (a mole is located) on the site of the stars ditto (and) he does not eat (it) in the star of the enemy. |
| obverse 22 | If ditto a copper vessel (and) the property of the palace are not removed, the property of the palace will seize it. |
| obverse 12 | If a sheep is the property of the house of Itar: Itar will devastate the lands. |
| reverse 6' | If a thigh is located on the street... and enters the city. |
| obverse 10 | If ditto (a magnanimous locust)... of the gate(s) of the temple of a god and... in the temple of a god.... |
| obverse 33 | (If) ditto the front of the door ditto: that of the door will be 7 (times). |
| obverse 17 | If a ram (is) the property of the palace becomes lost the king to his servants... |
| obverse 21 | If ditto a copper statue of the treasure of the palace disappears and the property of the palace emerges from it: |
| obverse 27 | If ditto (a magnanimous plant)... ditto (a magnanimous plant) and it is not good in it, (or) it is not good for the day.... |
| reverse 2' | (If) he gives birth to butter and butter: he will die. |
| obverse 34 | (If) ditto: you crush seeds of dates, you mix (the mixture) with beer. |
| obverse 23 | If a sheep is the property of a man's house: that man will die. |
| obverse 4 | If ditto a copper vessel (and) a treasure of the stars rises: the enemy's army will be scattered in the land. |
| reverse 4' | ... not covered in... of the wall?, (or)... against you. |
| reverse 27' | If ditto he sees a thigh: the house will be abandoned. |
| obverse 1 | If a ram (is) the property of a star of a city: the city will not be happy. |
| reverse 35' | If he is ill for two days: |
| reverse 1' | You pound (the mixture) with a bronze arrow and turn it into a river. |
| obverse 16 | (If) ditto (a mole is located on the) street of the temple of Itar: ditto. |
| reverse 32' | If flesh emerges in a man's house: that house....... |
| obverse 18 | If ditto a copper vessel (and) the property of the temple is loosened, the king will die. |
| reverse 13' | If ditto (a mole is located) in a god's temple. |
| obverse 36 | Ditto: a chariot of a door, a chariot,, a chariot |
| reverse 10' | If a thigh is seen in the wall: attack of the city. |
| obverse 15 | If... is covered in... and...: the people will die from a scorpion's sting. |
| obverse 26 | If a ram (is) a possession of a man's house stolen and a man's son will die and a man's. |
| obverse 8 | If ditto a copper vessel (and) property of a god's temple... |
| reverse 7' | If a thigh is seen in the street: famine. |
| obverse 28 | The wording of a shatammu-prayer to EGAR. |
| reverse 16' | If ditto (a light is seen on the horizon) and the horizon rises: that house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 25 | If ditto (a mole is located) on the site of a man's house: the mistress of that house will die and that house will not prosper. |
| reverse 28' | If ditto (a thigh) is seen in the middle of a house: that house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 13 | If ditto a copper vessel (and) property of the temple of Itar is gathered, a strong battle will be placed before the Apsu. |
| reverse 8' | If a thigh is seen in a city: that city will be abandoned. |
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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