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K 08813 (P397770)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08813 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397770 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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 9' | (If) he does not have a grasp(?), he will not have a grasp(?) |
| obverse 3' | ... front of the gate... |
| obverse 2' | ... on the right...... |
| obverse 5' | ... the weapon... |
| obverse 17' | ... the angry gods will return to the land. |
| reverse 2 | ... the enemy's army will eat share. |
| reverse 3 | If the 'path'. |
| obverse 7' | ... he made your land bow down to the ground. |
| reverse 1 | ... his army will eat share. |
| obverse 12' | If the 'paths' on the left of the gall bladder stand: the gods will reach the enemy's army. |
| obverse 13' | If the middle of the 'path' reaches the 'path.' |
| obverse 6' | ... he made the people of the lands bow down. |
| obverse 10' | If the 'path' approaches the 'finger': there will be famine. |
| obverse 16' | If the middle of the 'path' is thick: the god will not stand in the sacrifice. |
| obverse 11' | If the 'path' on the right stands: the gods will reach my army. |
| obverse 4' | ... of a land that is unknown, |
| obverse 8' | ... he will not acquire a scribal art. |
| obverse 15' | ... the anger of the god to a man. |
| obverse 14' | ... praise of the god to a man. |
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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