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Šumma Izbu no. 5, K 08985 (P397842)
CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Šumma Izbu no. 5, K 08985 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397842 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu |
| 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 8 | ... his land will be destroyed. |
| reverse 4' | For my reading, he established it in my palace. |
| obverse 1 | ... life of the king, |
| obverse 10 | ... there are..., |
| obverse 6 | ... lady, she will die. |
| obverse 2 | ... all the lands, as many as there are, |
| obverse 3 | ... the land, as many as there are |
| obverse 7 | ... the king will rule. |
| obverse 5 | ... the prince, the king, passed away. |
| obverse 4 | ... the prince will not have a rival. |
| reverse 3' | I wrote, collated, and collated it. |
| reverse 1' | which none of the kings who came before me had ever seen — |
| obverse 9 | ... of the land,... is king, and he will become lord. After the lord of strength he will become strong. |
| reverse 2' | The wisdom of Nabû, the one who carries off your sand from all the lands, |
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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