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K 07859 (P397333)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 07859 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397333 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse col 2 16' | an eclipse will take place and rains and floods will come and.... |
| obverse col 2 6' | If its right horn is long to the north: in Taritu (VII) on the 15th day: the eclipse will take place. |
| obverse col 2 13' | or the attack of the enemy : If the enemy... |
| obverse col 2 5' | (and) the... which is in the midst of Elam, there will be a flood in the land and the land will be scattered. |
| reverse col 3 1' | ... chief(?) |
| obverse col 2 8' | If its right horn is long to the west: in Taritu (VII) (means) : on the 15th day (means): an eclipse will take place. |
| obverse col 2 15' | If the Moon in Arasamnu (VIII) on the 14th day at its appearance in its right horn: the Panther will stand in Arasamnu. |
| obverse col 2 9' | king : a king of the world will take away his life, his son will seize the throne and the land will conquer the enemy. |
| obverse col 2 4' | If the Moon in Taritu (Month VII), on its appearance, is surrounded by a halo: in Taritu (Month VII), an eclipse will take place and the god will die. |
| obverse col 2 7' | If he is ill and the king of Akkad will not die: attack of locusts against the land and the harvest will prosper. |
| obverse col 2 2' | If the Moon... blood... |
| obverse col 2 14' | If on the 30th day he sees a man: he will approach the land. |
| reverse col 3 3' | (If) he sees an evil enemy, he will live. |
| reverse col 3 2' | ... the king's son will die. |
| obverse col 2 11' | (If) a man is killed and the troops of the land will kill : a god will die : he will die and the troops of the king will kill. |
| obverse col 2 10' | If its right horn is long to the south: in Taritu (VII) on the 20th day: an eclipse will take place and Adad will devastate. |
| obverse col 2 12' | If its right horn is long to the north: in Taritu (VII) on the first day there is an eclipse and there will be hostilities. |
| obverse col 2 3' | It is the seventh day that Anu Enlil |
| reverse col 3 4' | If its light is dark in ebetu (X): an eclipse will take place and the king of Akkad will die. |
| reverse col 3 5' | ... if in an eclipse the Swallow and Venus stand... |
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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