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K 07961 (P397400)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 07961 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397400 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 1? 8 | ...... Venus entered it... |
| col 2? 15' | ... 12? adolescents |
| col 1? 6 | ...... : who...... |
| col 1? 3 | ......... |
| col 3? 8' | ... is dark |
| col 2? 14' | ......... |
| col 1? 12 | ...... |
| col 1? 2 | ... the people(?)... the enemy(?) |
| col 1? 5 | ... on the day...... on the day... on the day... |
| col 1? 16 | ... Mercury stood with the moon(?) |
| col 3? 4' | ...... day |
| col 3? 6' | ... may... not |
| col 3? 2' | ...... |
| col 1? 11 | ... the mountain(?)... |
| col 2? 4' | Mercury... |
| col 1? 10 | ...... of... a journey |
| bottom? 4 | ...... day 2 3 4 month... |
| col 3? 5' | ... and |
| col 3? 11' | ... the enemy(?) who... day and day |
| col 2? 12' | (If) Venus... the sun...... |
| col 3? 7' | ... not from |
| col 2? 6' | Therein the Moon is visible. |
| col 3? 1' | ... the... of the heart(?) |
| col 2? 5' | ......... |
| col 1? 4 | ... lion(?)... Venus(?) |
| col 2? 7' | clouds in |
| col 1? 13 | ...... |
| col 2? 10' | ...... |
| col 2? 3' | ...... |
| col 1? 15 | ... of the opening? on the 4th day |
| col 1? 7 | ...... : a curse...... |
| col 1? 14 | ... of an eclipse... |
| col 2? 13' | ...... |
| col 3? 3' | ...... day |
| col 1? 17 | ......... |
| bottom? 3 | ... on the 20th day enters the moon. |
| col 2? 8' | ......... |
| col 2? 9' | ... in the middle of... |
| col 2? 11' | ... of an eclipse... rams |
| col 2? 2' | ...... |
| col 1? 1 | ... the cosmic powers of the eclipse(?) |
| col 1? 9 | ......... |
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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