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K 08886 (P397799)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08886 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397799 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 15' | If... on a man's...... |
| 4' | If a snake... from the gate of a man's house, a snake... into a man's house. |
| 14' | If a man is stricken from the ground: that man will die. |
| 13' | If a sow gives birth from barley: that field will be irrigated.... |
| 18' | .... I will conquer... |
| 16' | If... in front of a man....... |
| 2' | If... from the father(?)... |
| 10' | If a man... from ama to the left: a man will fall. |
| 5' | If a man is seized by a storm and... on his right side enters a house : illness....... |
| 1' | If....... |
| 17' | If a man.......... |
| 20' | ... evil... |
| 12' | If a sow gives birth to a sow: that water will fall. |
| 11' | If a man is seized from the beams and falls on a man: he will not be seized. |
| 8' | If a man's bed is swollen: the house.... |
| 7' | If a sow gives birth to a man: the house... |
| 3' | If a sorcerer...s from the ground, that house....... |
| 9' | If a man... from ama to the right. A man... |
| 19' | ... its... |
| 6' | If ditto a man's tongue is swollen: that man's land. |
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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