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K 08468 (P397644)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08468 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397644 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 2' | If on the 15th day an eclipse takes place: the king will be killed and rains in the sky. |
| 7' | (If) in the evening watch he is dressed in the middle watch, he is covered in the north: rain will come into your hands. |
| 10' | If on the 15th day an eclipse takes place: the king's son will kill his father and seize the throne. |
| 15' | (Ditto:) The king did not make the throne last long. That land was small |
| 19' | If on the 15th day an eclipse takes place: the enemy will die and the harvest of the land will eat. |
| 9' | (If) there are floods in the meadows, there will be hunger in the land; people will eat their sons for silver. |
| 14' | If on the 1st day an eclipse takes place: the throne of the land will not become stable; the king will have strong winds in the land. |
| 18' | You should not approach Elam with a weapon. |
| 8' | To the king of Akkad he gave a decision, and to the king he will become hostile. |
| 13' | If on the 20th day an eclipse takes place: rains will fall in the sky; the floods will be scattered in the river; the land will go to the land and will be well. |
| 4' | If on the 20th day an eclipse takes place: the king of the land will die. : The land will die and he will seize the throne. |
| 3' | If on the 16th day an eclipse takes place: the king of Akkad will eat food. |
| 1' | a weapon will be seen and a man will kill a man with the weapon. |
| 11' | If on the sixteenth day an eclipse takes place: the king of the land will die, variant: the king of the land will die and seize the throne. |
| 5' | If on the 1st day an eclipse takes place: Lamatu ditto; the land will become happy. |
| 16' | If in Taritu (Month VII), on the 14th day an eclipse takes place and the south wind blows and in the west wind blows: in the morning watch, the eclipse will occur. |
| 6' | If in Ululu (VI) on the 14th day an eclipse takes place and it sets in the north and in the south: |
| 12' | rains in the sky, |
| 17' | (If) he is ill in the middle watch: you take him away from your hands. |
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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