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K 08998 (P397851)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 3. Manzāzu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08998 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397851 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 3. Manzāzu |
| 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' | ... ama will not reach his heart |
| 14' | ... : If the left side of the'station' is split.... |
| 5' | ... he will fall.... |
| 15' | ...... |
| 7' | her... did not ascend, the prince(?) heard(?) |
| 10' | ... princes,..., |
| 9' | ... silver, pure... |
| 16' | ... god and god...... |
| 11' | ... he swore by the prince,... god. |
| 13' | ......... the prince's army... |
| 12' | ..., pure..., sacrifice |
| 1' | If a man's head is located and one-third in the top of a man's head: evil will afflict the prince. |
| 4' | ... you sweep the... of the body of a man. |
| 3' | If a man's head is located on the base of the'station' and he is 'bound' on the base of the'station.' |
| 6' | ... you pound... on a man's neck. |
| 2' | If a man is seized by a snake and one-third in the middle of a man's lung: he 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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