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K 08773 (P397748)
CANONICAL > Divination; CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08773 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397748 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination; CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 3 | ... not....... |
| obverse 7 | ... stands: that man will die in his messenger. |
| obverse 4 | ... a man fell, but he did not know |
| obverse 2 | ... entered(?) the house(?)...,...,...,..., |
| obverse 1 | ... enters...: the enemy will enter the city. |
| obverse 5 | ... that house will grow old |
| obverse 6 | ... the owner of that house will give birth. |
| obverse 11 | ... no... |
| obverse 9 | ... no one... his(?) hand |
| obverse 8 | ... stands... the gods who stand... |
| obverse 10 | ......... |
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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