K 08510 (P397660)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Šamaš (EAE 23–35); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08510 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397660 |
| 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); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By nn · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | (…) Ma[rs …] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | If a star stands when a solar disk rises (= Enūma Anu Enlil 24(25) III 15) (means:) Mars [stands(?).] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | If when a solar disk rises it stands beside the moon, and [Kabta stands] in front of it (= Enūma Anu Enlil 24(25) III 10) |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | Kabta (means) Ea, the lord of plague, (or?) M[ars(?);] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | (the protasis means:) the moon and Mars [stand(?)] all day. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | If stars stand when the solar disk rises (= Enūma Anu Enlil 24(25) III 16) (means:) [The planets stand(?)] during an eclipse. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | If the regular stars [come forth] when a solar disk rises (= Enūma Anu Enlil 24(25) III 18) |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | (means:) The stars of the paths (of Ea, Anu, and Enlil) [come forth(?).] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | 13 entries from “If the face of the normal solar disk [is covered in the middle” (= Enūma Anu Enlil 24(25) I 1).] |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | New, not old. Written(?) [and checked(?)] according to its original. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | uʾiltu-tablet of Aššur-mudammiq, whose [mainstay is Nabû(?),] |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | son of Nabû-mušēṣi, scribe of [the Aššur] temple(?). |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1' | (x) {d}ṣal-bat⸣-[a-nu ...] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | AŠ.ME ina KUR-šu₂ MUL GUB {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu [GUB] | |
| 2 | AŠ.ME ina KUR-šu₂ ina A₂ 30 GUB u ana IGI-šu₂ {⸢d⸣}[kab-ta GUB] | |
| 3 | {d}kab-ta {d}e₂-a EN šib-ṭi {⸢d⸣}[ṣal-bat-a-nu] | |
| 4 | 30 u {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu kal u₄-mu [GUB-MEŠ] | |
| 5 | AŠ.ME ina KUR-šu₂ MUL-MEŠ GUB-MEŠ ina AN.GE₆ [UDU.IDIM-MEŠ GUB-MEŠ-ma] | |
| 6 | AŠ.ME ina KUR-šu₂ MUL-MEŠ SAG.UŠ-MEŠ [E₃-MEŠ] | |
| 7 | MUL-MEŠ KASKAL-MEŠ [E₃-MEŠ] | |
| 8 | 13 MU-MEŠ ša₂ ŠA₃ AŠ.ME ša gi-na-a ⸢IGI⸣-[MEŠ-šu₂ MURU₄ kat₃-mu] | |
| 9 | GIBIL NU LIBIR.RA GIM SUMUN-šu₂ ⸢SAR⸣-[ma ba-ri] | |
| 10 | u₂-il₃-ti {m}aš-šur-{mu}SIG₅ ša {⸢d⸣}[NA₃ tuk-lat-su] | |
| 11 | DUMU {m}{d}NA₃-mu-še-ṣi {lu₂}A.BA ⸢E₂⸣ [AN.ŠAR₂] | |
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
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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