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CT 40, pl. 24, K 08038 (P397452)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 24, K 08038 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397452 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 7' | If a name is placed in the street in front of a man:....... |
| 20' | ... in a man's house |
| 19' | ... there will be... in a man's house.... |
| 5' | If a man is seen in the street of a man and he does not.... |
| 18' | If a snake... in a man's house and its horns.... |
| 16' | If a snake is seen in a man's house:.... |
| 4' | If his name is located in the street:.... |
| 14' | If a snake is seen with its heads:.... |
| 12' | If a snake is seen on a path or in the street between the side of a man.... |
| 1' | If his name reaches the gate....... |
| 6' | If a name is placed in the street in front of a man.... |
| 9' | If a snake comes close to the front of a man:.... |
| 2' | If names in a man's house... |
| 8' | If he sees a man in the street: he will die and he will come to the throne. |
| 17' | If a man's horn is seen in a man's house.... |
| 13' | If a snake is seen.... |
| 22' | ......... |
| 15' | If a black name is seen in a man's house.... |
| 21' | ... he made wide and......... |
| 10' | If a dog stands in the path of a man from the right of a man to the left of a man:.... |
| 3' | If those omens ditto and like a thorn... and.... |
| 11' | If a snake is located on the path of a man and in front of a man.... |
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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