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CT 40, pl. 31, K 08013 (P397437)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 31, K 08013 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397437 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| 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 7' | If an ox comes close to a donkey: the land will become strong.... |
| obverse 2' | If an ox enters a man's house and.... |
| reverse 2 | If an ox comes close to a horse: the king will die and its land will diminish. : The path of a man's house will diminish. |
| reverse 1 | If an ox roars towards a donkey : attack of a enemy against a man. |
| obverse 3' | If a man enters a man's house and... in his horn.... |
| obverse 6' | If in a man's house....... |
| obverse 1' | ... of a bed |
| obverse 4' | ... afterwards... |
| reverse 3 | If he is ill for a horse: |
| reverse 8 | If an ox, its wailing... |
| reverse 5 | If oxen and their tails have been seized, the owner of the animal stall will die. |
| obverse 5' | ... lord of the house, his property... |
| reverse 10 | If he is seized by a frightened omen, his body is full of 11 halo(s). |
| reverse 4 | If the oxen are swollen in the halo, |
| reverse 9 | If a day, when it appears, its right eye does not go, it is a royal extispicy: that animal stall will expand. |
| reverse 6 | If an ox at its appearance is surrounded by a halo, it will be surrounded by a lunar halo. |
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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