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Babyloniaca 06, 256 K 07254 (P396994)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Babyloniaca 06, 256 K 07254 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396994 |
| 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 7' | Your utterance is unrivaled. |
| obverse 9 | If the day is dark and the south wind blows: the south wind blows. |
| reverse 5' | You set up a ritual assemblage. |
| obverse 8 | You say: "If it is dark and it is dark" — |
| obverse 3 | their good fortune will come out to the market. |
| reverse 6' | the governor of Kr-Aur, who for Aur and Ninlil is victorious |
| obverse 16 | If a day... |
| obverse 12 | he strews, and he strews. |
| obverse 14 | If the storm roars like a roar of Adad, the enemy will devastate. |
| reverse 4' | Tablet 37(?) |
| obverse 13 | If its day... like day...: the prince will die. |
| obverse 6 | (If) it is yellow-green: he will become poor; he will become poor. |
| obverse 5 | (If) his day is dark: he will not see his day. |
| obverse 2 | The people will experience famine. |
| obverse 10 | If his snakes are like a snake: the day is ama |
| obverse 4 | a strong enemy will attack, and he will conquer. |
| obverse 1 | If the storm is dark: there will be famine in the land. |
| obverse 7 | ............ |
| obverse 17 | ZI...... |
| obverse 15 | ama(?) oxen, sheep, (and) people |
| obverse 11 | If his day is not long: he will not live. |
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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