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K 07966 (P397405)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 07966 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397405 |
| 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 14' | If in the sky a cloudburst (means) dark: rain. |
| obverse 4' | If a cloudburst is red and yellow: from the west to the west he will cause rain and flood. |
| obverse 13' | If on the day of disappearance of the moon... rain. |
| obverse 18' | If a cloudburst is yellow: an eclipse will take place and a cloud. Night... |
| obverse 8' | If there is a mole in the sky, 7 mole(s) will be mole(s) in the sky. |
| obverse 20' | (If) a cloudburst (means) dark: eclipse of the sky. |
| obverse 2' | You crush (them) in the mountain, the mountain(?) |
| reverse 6 | ... |
| reverse 12 | If in... |
| reverse 14 | If in... |
| reverse 3 | it thundered continuously in the east... |
| reverse 5 | If in the midst of.... |
| obverse 17' | If a cloud flashes: an eclipse will take place; cloud will take place. |
| obverse 7' | If in the sky a cloud flashes and in a cloud: he will reach the highest rank. |
| obverse 6' | If a cloudburst flares up in the wide heavens: rain will fall and rain. |
| reverse 7 | If in... |
| reverse 8 | If in... |
| reverse 10 | If in... |
| reverse 11 | If in... |
| reverse 9 | If in... |
| obverse 1' | If on the day of disappearance of the moon... |
| obverse 10' | If the day is overcast and there are ruins: there will be famine. |
| obverse 3' | If a cloudburst... in the south |
| obverse 19' | If the Well-being is white: an eclipse will take place and the Well-being is red in the midst of.... |
| reverse 15 | ... |
| obverse 9' | If it is surrounded by a lunar halo and it is covered with a white cloud: a red cloud will come out to a red cloud. |
| reverse 13 | ...... |
| obverse 11' | If the day reaches its normal length and a white and yellow-green cloud rises above it and Adad... in the east.... |
| obverse 12' | If the day is overcast and clouds are scattered in the sky and the south wind blows: he will become frightened... |
| reverse 4 | (If)... in.... |
| obverse 15' | If a cloudburst is white: an eclipse will take place. |
| obverse 16' | (If) he is ill for 10 days: he will become ill. Night of the horizon he will be sated... |
| obverse 5' | If the day is dark and dark: white cloud like a erzû-demon. |
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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