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ACh Ishtar 24 (P397428)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ACh Ishtar 24 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397428 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 5' | If Simut is yellow-green:.... |
| 10' | If... |
| 11' | If... |
| 12' | If... |
| 13' | If... |
| 9' | If... |
| reverse 2' | If the Panther in Mercury(?) |
| reverse 10' | If the Kidney Star approaches the Kidney Star |
| 1' | If a man... |
| 2' | If a man... |
| 3' | If a man... |
| 4' | If a man... |
| 5' | If a man... |
| 6' | If a man... |
| 7' | If a man... |
| 8' | If a man... |
| reverse 20' | If a star comes close to Dildi: in that year, to the 6th month the king will die and his land will eat food. |
| reverse 3' | If Simut is black: a man |
| reverse 17' | If a star rises and approaches the Crab: the prince will die. |
| reverse 9' | ... locusts... |
| reverse 6' | If Simut is red:.... |
| reverse 12' | If a star rises and approaches the Great Twins: the king will die and. |
| reverse 13' | If a star rises and approaches the Fish: there will be frost in the land. |
| reverse 15' | If a star rises and approaches the Pleiades: the land will be scattered. |
| reverse 14' | (If) a star comes close to the Old Man: may it not attack and the king will kill the throne. |
| reverse 1' | If a planet.... |
| reverse 7' | If the Kidney Star reaches the north: lower side: sesame will prosper. |
| reverse 4' | If Simut is white:.... |
| reverse 23' | If a star rises and approaches the sun: the land will be scattered. |
| reverse 8' | If the Kidney Star reaches the north: above in Virgo. The barley is not favourable? |
| reverse 18' | If a star comes close to Jupiter: in that year the king will die and the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| reverse 19' | If a star comes close to the Field: the land will eat food. |
| reverse 11' | If a star rises and approaches the She-Goat: he will die and.... |
| reverse 22' | If a star comes close to Ninmah: there will be a : the south wind(?) will be very strong. |
| reverse 16' | If a star comes close to Enmearra: the land will become happy. |
| reverse 21' | If a star comes close to a planet: there will be famine in the land. |
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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