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Nisaba 2, pl. I 6 (P397068)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 2, pl. I 6 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397068 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 4' | If the Moon in Nisannu (Month I), Ayyaru (Month I), Simanu (Month I), |
| 8' | If the Moon at its appearance like the 1st day.... |
| 9' | If the Moon at its appearance like the 1st day.... |
| 6' | The 27th day: before evil of Elam... |
| 5' | In these months, like the 1st of the preceding month, |
| 2' | The day of the disappearance of the month's disappearance, which the openings... |
| 1' | By their command,... the beams... |
| 10' | If the Moon at its appearance like the 1st day.... |
| 3' | (If) Utu sees in the gate, inside the heavens and the earth. |
| 11' | If the Moon at its appearance like the 1st day.... |
| 7' | If the Moon at its appearance like the 1st day.... |
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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