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K 08163 (P397521)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08163 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397521 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 10' | ... he should eat his..., to the destruction of the house... |
| 14' | ................... |
| 5' | ... his lord has been killed |
| 9' | ... he eats... for his lord, the cultic rite of the god. |
| 7' | ...... its temple will be scattered. |
| 11' | ... eats..., there will be a severe hunger |
| 19' | ................. |
| 15' | ...... eats...: fall of a man's house. |
| 13' | ... a man's garment was shaved off, ditto it is shaved off. |
| 3' | ...... if that house |
| 18' | ...... eats... and he eats a suckling pig. |
| 4' | ... will fall. |
| 16' | ... there will be famine. There will be famine in the land and famine. |
| 2' | ... land and |
| 17' | ... that... will seize him. |
| 12' | ... eats... of that city |
| 8' | ... he will go. |
| 6' | ... his lord will be satisfied. |
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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