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K 07965 (P397404)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 07965 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397404 |
| 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' | You recite the incantations of the land... |
| 13' | If the 3rd day is set: the night....... |
| 5' | If the Moon at its appearance is very small: there will be famine. Ditto: there will be famine. |
| 12' | If the 3rd day is dark, all of it: an eclipse....... |
| 3' | If the Moon at its appearance is faint: the harvest of the land will not prosper; the land will diminish....... |
| 2' | ... he fashioned a censer, his eyes... |
| 7' | : evil of all the lands will occur; an eclipse which... all of it. |
| 9' | If the Moon at its appearance wears a dark spot: Itar. |
| 1' | ......... |
| 14' | If the Moon at its feet is not covered with reeds:.... |
| 11' | ... his mouth is seen and... |
| 6' | If the Moon at its appearance ditto: there will be no 'well-being'.... |
| 8' | (If) a image of a statue of himself is 30 ditto. |
| 16' | ... an eclipse will take place(?)... its entirety(?) |
| 10' | If the Moon at its appearance is dark: there will be no rejoicing in it.... |
| 15' | ... Borsippa was small |
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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