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K 08278 + K 08928 (P397564)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Ištar (EAE 50–68); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08278 + K 08928 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397564 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Ištar (EAE 50–68); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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 3 | ... and it will be good. |
| reverse 23 | ...... : his eye is red |
| reverse 11 | It is surrounded by a lunar halo. Like a star of the sky, it is very bright. |
| reverse 20 | ... he will recover. Month of the sixth, deaths will occur in the land. |
| obverse 23' | ... Mars entered inside it |
| obverse 4' | ...... |
| reverse 25 | ...... that sign is not visible |
| obverse 15' | ... there will be... in the land. Mars is Saturn. |
| obverse 6' | ...... a planet rises and |
| obverse 17' | ... approaches the Panther |
| reverse 7 | ... the abode of the land cannot be changed. |
| obverse 21' | ... stands |
| reverse 24 | ... and enters. If he has gone out |
| reverse 8 | ... Mars approaches the Scorpion |
| obverse 20' | ... Mars or Saturn |
| obverse 9' | If a pigeon approaches the Bristle: Adad will devastate. Mars |
| obverse 16' | .......... |
| reverse 10 | .... of Anana. |
| reverse 14 | ... the gods will have mercy on Akkad. |
| reverse 17 | ...... the king will make his evils disappear |
| reverse 19 | ... which Nergal had abandoned with Marduk and stood there. |
| obverse 13' | ... who constantly seeks out the harvest, |
| reverse 2 | ... Mars stands before Venus |
| obverse 7' | ... the talent of date palms |
| obverse 19' | ... stands at the left side of the Shepherd of Anu |
| obverse 11' | ... : in the Furrow stands |
| reverse 9 | If Nergal, at his appearance, is covered in his face: there will be frost in the land of Elam. |
| reverse 18 | ... for the well-being of the king and his people |
| obverse 24' | ... Mars |
| obverse 10' | I conquered...; sesame, the north wind blew. Mars |
| obverse 14' | ... ulpa’e... |
| reverse 15 | ... he constantly seeks out..., : bu'ulma-plant, |
| reverse 12 | ... my troops will go and the enemy troops will kill the enemy troops in front of my troops. |
| reverse 13 | The land of Akkad was surrounded by a fog in the steppe. |
| reverse 16 | ... stand at his left side, and he is stricken. |
| obverse 3' | ... of Iri-du |
| obverse 22' | ... is located. The Swallow and Anunitu |
| reverse 1 | ... DIL.DI.D.D.D.D.D.D.D.D. |
| obverse 12' | ... sesame will be good. Mars......... |
| reverse 4 | ... approaches the Kidney Star: hunger will seize the land. |
| reverse 21 | ...... stands in front of oxen. |
| obverse 18' | ... there will be... |
| obverse 1' | ... is paid |
| reverse 6 | ... death by a scorpion; after it, its small... will not seize the throne. |
| obverse 2' | ... approaches the King and |
| obverse 8' | ... approaches the Bristle and |
| obverse 5' | ... there will be... hunger. |
| reverse 26 | ... albatanu, judge of Makrû |
| reverse 5 | ... there will be evil in the land. Mars stands in Scorpius. |
| reverse 22 | You set up the... of the fish of Ea |
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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