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K 08756 (P397740)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 1. Isru, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08756 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397740 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 1. Isru |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 9' | ... to help... |
| 15' | If the breast-bone.......... |
| 12' | ... the... of the netherworld(?) |
| 7' | ...... |
| 3' | ...... |
| 11' | If the breast-bone.......... |
| 17' | If the breast-bone....... |
| 5' | ... in front of... |
| 22' | If the breast-bone... |
| 21' | ...... |
| 8' | If the right side of the 'finger' is split: the enemy will take away my city. |
| 13' | If the breast-bone is on the right and on the left: there will be death........ |
| 16' | ... on the ground(?)......... eat |
| 18' | ... woman... |
| 2' | (No translation possible) |
| 20' | If ditto....... |
| 4' | ......... |
| 6' | If the right horn................ |
| 10' | If the king....... |
| 14' | They said to... 150(?)... |
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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