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K 08814 (P397771)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 1. Isru; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08814 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397771 |
| 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; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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 col 1 12' | (If) they are black and black: Naram-Sin will be killed. |
| obverse col 1 1' | ... not |
| obverse col 1 3' | ......... |
| obverse col 1 8' | ... before the kursinnu of the right and left. |
| reverse col 4? 3' | (If) he does not pay attention? |
| obverse col 1 11' | ... the kursinnu-trees are piled up in their four corners. |
| reverse col 4? 4' | he entrusted to Ea |
| reverse col 4? 2' | son of Nabû-bi-mu-uur(?) |
| obverse col 1 7' | You recite the incantation which is in the 'finger.' |
| obverse col 1 5' | The one who said: "The four of them will go out to 3 1/2"; he will become good. |
| obverse col 1 4' | If they are stricken in the fourth extispicy: attack of an enemy. |
| obverse col 1 10' | he seized... and... |
| obverse col 1 9' | (If) they are stricken and they are stricken twice, they will die for two times. |
| obverse col 1 2' | ...... left |
| obverse col 1 6' | (If) they are four...: they will die. |
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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