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K 08948 (P397821)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08948 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397821 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 8' | went out to kill him,...... |
| 14' | ...... days... a man who dies |
| 9' | (If) there is a mole on the right of the gall bladder: he will die. On that day... |
| 10' | (If) a fog rolls in: the 15th, sunset to moonrise: man; he will die.... |
| 12' | (If) he is swollen: he will be seized. A man will die. |
| 4' | (If) he sees a fog: to the ground. The 15th, until the 2nd, lions will die.... |
| 2' | ... with the marsh on the right, he... the king(?) from/by means of(?) |
| 15' | ... days... the man who dies |
| 3' | (If) he is surrounded by a lunar halo on the right and left: the king will turn back to a man and he will go out to the enemy. |
| 6' | (If) he is ill in the middle of the 15th, it is white: illness, illness, and death... |
| 1' | ... 15?... |
| 13' | (If) he is stricken in the middle of a hole: he will be seized by a man. |
| 5' | (If) a fog lies in the middle of the sky. The 15th, sunset to moonrise: he will die. A man will die. |
| 11' | (If) there is a mole on the right of the gall bladder: a man will die.... |
| 7' | ... in? the middle of the 15th, it will be white: attack of the king against 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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