Unread Atlas
K 08290 (P397570)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | K 08290 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397570 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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 8' | ... there will be abundance for the land and the land will eat food. Mars |
| reverse 16' | ... Kalu(?) |
| reverse 13' | ... his army will be destroyed |
| reverse 12' | ...... and the house(?) |
| reverse 10' | ... Eirtu: there will be abundance in the land. |
| reverse 9' | ... there will be famine in the land. |
| reverse 7' | enters the midst of the moon, he enters the enemy and emerges from a curse and he will die. |
| reverse 11' | .............. |
| reverse 4' | ... enters...: he will die and his land will prosper. |
| reverse 14' | ... tablet of Nabopolassar |
| reverse 3' | ... in the land |
| reverse 15' | son of Marduk-um-iqia, descendant of Gabbi-ilni, chief scribe. |
| reverse 1' | ...... : |
| reverse 2' | ... in the land eaten and Mars |
| reverse 6' | ... the enemy will attack and will not approach his land. |
| reverse 5' | ... rises and its onset will be scattered. Mars |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.