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K 07049 (P396990)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 07049 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396990 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 11' | ... middle of the night, moonset to sunrise: 150°; it was seen to the east... |
| 4' | ... the weapon was set up. |
| 3' | ... Itar, your shepherd |
| 9' | ... before..., evil |
| 7' | ... is located in the middle of the 'finger' of the weapon and... |
| 2' | ...... : |
| 12' | ... is wide on the left and the Weapon is located and the head and the 'finger' are strong on the prince. That city |
| 5' | ... The 15th, the north wind blew; the enemy approached the city... |
| 6' | ... The left side of the 'finger' is seen to the city... |
| 8' | ... Enlil, my shepherd |
| 13' | (If) he sees a... hand, he goes straight to the bed of the enemy and the enemy will go(?) |
| 15' | ... a hostile enemy to my land. |
| 10' | ... the right side of the 'finger' becomes visible: the enemy will come to the land... |
| 14' | ... left and front of the moon, it... to the ground |
| 16' | ... you set up a weapon and |
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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