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K 08974 (P397837)
CANONICAL > Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08974 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397837 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination |
| 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 4 | ... there will be no lawsuit. |
| obverse 7 | ... by the command of Utu... and |
| reverse 2' | ... a lawsuit will arise concerning the harvest, a lawsuit will bring about the harvest. |
| obverse 6 | ... royal... |
| obverse 3 | .... he will perform the... |
| reverse 6' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 8 | ..... |
| obverse 1 | ... Enlil if you are to Babylon |
| reverse 5' | According to the mouth(?) of the liar of Akkad, it is written in Babylon. |
| reverse 3' | ... the shepherd... |
| obverse 5 | ... Ei/pi/galbar of Nippur, a bronze door |
| reverse 4' | When... enters |
| reverse 1' | ... they are... |
| obverse 2 | ... the king of the world will eat strong food offerings in the 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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