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K 08658 (P397721)
CANONICAL > Divination > Physiognomy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08658 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397721 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Physiognomy |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 9' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder |
| col 1' 5' | ........... |
| col 2' 8' | If the hand of a man's hand is swollen: battle will seize him. |
| col 1' 2' | ... his strength. |
| col 1' 3' | ...... |
| col 2' 4' | If in the agagi... |
| col 1' 6' | ...... |
| col 2' 3' | his god... |
| col 2' 10' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder and |
| col 1' 4' | ... will be scattered. |
| col 2' 14' | ... went down....... |
| col 2' 12' | If the veins of the lung and the veins of the lung are swollen: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| col 2' 5' | If its right horn is bent down: he will not reach his goal. |
| col 2' 1' | ... his akaliu? |
| col 2' 13' | will become numerous; his days will be long. |
| col 2' 11' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder, he will be ill for long. |
| col 2' 7' | If stone afflicts his house, the palace will expand. |
| col 1' 7' | ... built(?) |
| col 2' 6' | The 'finger' of his left 'finger' is thick. |
| col 2' 2' | If in the agagi... |
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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