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K 08031 (P397448)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08031 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397448 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 3' | ... of 5 feet |
| obverse 1' | ... of 3 feet... |
| obverse 2' | ... 4 feet... |
| reverse 11 | ... the fire, the fire, the famine, |
| reverse 13 | ...-kamshi |
| reverse 10 | ...-mapa |
| obverse 8' | ... on account of the evil of the hand, |
| reverse 8 | ... of a man. |
| obverse 9' | ... by the evil of a 'foot'-mark on the left. |
| reverse 4 | ... an eclipse |
| obverse 4' | ... the btuqtu-disease,..., and the eyes... |
| obverse 5' | ... the evil omens, the extispicy(?) |
| obverse 10' | ... which are present in my hand and my palace |
| obverse 7' | ... evil, evil, unfavorable. |
| reverse 3 | ... anything that... |
| reverse 1 | ......... |
| obverse 6' | .... will not become good. |
| reverse 5 | ... which...... |
| reverse 9 | ... the evil of a... for me. |
| reverse 7 | ...... whatever evil sign... |
| reverse 12 | ... he will be satisfied. |
| reverse 2 | ... who in his body... |
| reverse 6 | ... evil... |
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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