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K 08439 (P397630)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Šamaš (EAE 23–35), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08439 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397630 |
| 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 > Šamaš (EAE 23–35) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 4' | If in Simanu (Month III) on the 4th day 4 ewes emerge....... |
| 7' | If in Simanu (Month III), on day 6, a solar disk emerges: he will recover. |
| 23' | ... ditto: he will become stable in the land of ama. |
| 1' | If in Ayyaru (XII) on the 30th day 7 ditto 8 omens emerge.... |
| 3' | If in Sivan (III) on the day of the day ditto (and) on the day of the 3rd day he emerges 3 times.... |
| 18' | ... ama made sweet erzû-flour, and... |
| 17' | ..... he has made... surpassing... |
| 2' | If in Simanu (Month III) on the 4th day 2 ewes emerge.... |
| 9' | If the sun appears in the decision of the Anunna gods and there are radiances: the Scales will be surrounded by a yellow-green halo. |
| 16' | .................... |
| 21' | ... cloudburst entered a nqlpu-vessel... |
| 22' | ... cloudburst entered a nqlpu-vessel... |
| 15' | ... ama, his weapon |
| 8' | If in Simanu (Month III)... two stars emerge: the king of Akkad.... |
| 6' | If in Simanu (Month III), on day 6 of the eponym year of... |
| 20' | ... his... in the apsû he filled and... |
| 14' | .......... |
| 11' | ... whose land is not destroyed, and the lands and their settlements... |
| 19' | ... the land will diminish ditto... |
| 13' | ... he entrusted... to me, and (then) he swore a yellow-green cedar... |
| 10' | ... there will be hostilities and the king will conquer.... |
| 12' | ... [...]... [...] |
| 5' | If in Simanu (Month III) on the 4.5th day 5 ewes come out.... |
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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