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Babyloniaca 04, 120-121 (P397763)
CANONICAL > Divination > Diviner’s manual; CANONICAL > Technical > Procedures > Diviner’s manual, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Babyloniaca 04, 120-121 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397763 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Diviner’s manual; CANONICAL > Technical > Procedures > Diviner’s manual |
| 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 13' | If the sun rises and a star rises and stands in front of it |
| obverse 11' | the side of heaven with the earth he will die. |
| obverse 9' | 14 tablet(s), i.e., the idtu of the earth. |
| reverse 16 | The light and the eye of the moon are seen together: it will be seen. |
| obverse 12' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder, |
| reverse 30 | (No) barley, no barley, no barley, no barley |
| reverse 18 | of the year, its months, its days will be long and you will be well. |
| obverse 27' | Now then they have not set foot on heaven and earth. |
| reverse 27 | he will not be negligent. |
| obverse 23' | The 11th, the tablet is covered in the sky like a star which is in front of it. |
| obverse 24' | You set up a libation bowl in its midst and you observe the light of the sky. |
| reverse 19 | When the moon becomes visible on the day of disappearance of the moon, may it become your great divinity. |
| reverse 22 | ...... |
| reverse 13 | (If) he is stricken in your hands and he is stricken: |
| obverse 29' | who in the underworld is evil, in the heavens is evil. |
| reverse 10 | (If) a sign is seen in the sky, in the underworld. |
| reverse 32 | ... and minas of good tin. |
| reverse 9 | whose good and evil are torn out |
| reverse 17 | You should listen to the prayer of the Pleiades and Sin. |
| reverse 21 | For the remission of the debts and the remission of the debts, |
| reverse 24 | You put the star and the moon in your hands. |
| obverse 7' | If a donkey gives birth to a innards in the steppe: in the city. |
| obverse 2' | If he is ill in a city of rejoicing: he will die. |
| reverse 2 | These... should be repaid. |
| obverse 17' | If he sees the moon and his crown |
| reverse 12 | 12 months of the first year; |
| obverse 16' | If the sun and sun are in balance: |
| obverse 30' | You send a letter and either of heaven or of the earth. |
| reverse 26 | In the year, as if it were the case, it was well. |
| obverse 26' | 'The heavens and earth have sworn.' |
| reverse 4 | Its sign is removed and the city, king, and his people. |
| reverse 15 | The praises of Sin and ama of Addaru and Ululu |
| obverse 21' | If the Field becomes visible in Nisannu (I). |
| reverse 8 | Total: 24 tablets, i.e., of heaven and earth. |
| reverse 14 | Their words are a conquest. The head of the Field |
| obverse 6' | If a 'foot'-mark is located on the right and on the left:... will see. |
| obverse 19' | If a star whose appearance is dark - after it it is located on the top of it: the sky will become bright. |
| obverse 4' | If a pregnant woman - a bird - that is like a bird on a city or its place |
| reverse 11 | These are the utterances of their utterances. |
| obverse 32' | ... a sign is unfavourable, a sign does not exist, and a slander does not exist. |
| reverse 31 | The barley is not the barley. |
| obverse 25' | the foundation of the earth with the heavens will be set up. |
| reverse 7 | When you speak to you, he will recover. |
| reverse 29 | (If) he does not pay, he will pay back the barley, he will pay back the barley, he will pay back the barley. |
| obverse 28' | From the one who in the heavens is evil, in the earth is evil. |
| obverse 31' | either to the mountains or to die or to eat, |
| obverse 18' | If from the first day in the morning watch the moon is surrounded by a halo. |
| obverse 22' | If a rainbow is seen like the womb: it will appear in the sky. |
| obverse 14' | If Venus sets in the morning and its stipulated term |
| obverse 5' | he heard, and he heard him |
| reverse 25 | Give me a firm positive answer, and may the days be long! |
| reverse 23 | You take 12 months from your hands. For a long time |
| obverse 20' | If Adad destroys it and sets its hand on the ground: |
| reverse 33 | ... you put in your hands. |
| reverse 20 | When in the evening, when you enter, may your great divinity be exalted. |
| reverse 6 | What will you say? |
| obverse 8' | If there is a mole on the... of the bird of the sky, its two feet... are located in his tail and are seen in front of him. |
| reverse 5 | In the hand of the enemy he will die and he will die. |
| obverse 10' | They are good and evil for them. |
| obverse 3' | The king of the land will make the great cult centers shine with silver. |
| reverse 1 | I did not wait for her, her evil will not approach. |
| obverse 15' | If a planet whose seven stars are visible on the day of disappearance |
| reverse 28 | Nisannu (I): an ox's hand is thin. Month VII, (the 1st of which was identical with) the 1st of the preceding month. |
| reverse 3 | And the 'hand' which is in front of it, the tablet you send two times in 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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