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K 09130 (P397927)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09130 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397927 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 3' | If a snake comes close to a man: he will die.... |
| reverse 9' | (If) a snake...: he will die. |
| obverse 6' | If a snake reaches the right of a man: he will fall. |
| obverse 7' | If a snake - a man's foot - is swollen. |
| reverse 3' | ... from |
| reverse 16' | If a snake... |
| reverse 6' | ... and stands above his mouth. |
| obverse 5' | If a snake falls on the right of a man: attack of the enemy. |
| obverse 2' | If a snake... behind a man: fall of.... |
| obverse 19' | If a snake is swollen on a sick person's illness: that illness will seize him. |
| reverse 4' | ... that one will die. |
| reverse 8' | ... red.... |
| reverse 12' | If a snake... |
| obverse 11' | If a snake falls into the middle of the middle of a wife and a wife: he will die. |
| obverse 12' | If a snake falls into the middle of the middle of a wife and a wife and....... |
| reverse 14' | If he dies... of the palace: his death. |
| obverse 17' | If a snake is swollen on the head: he will die. |
| reverse 13' | If a snake... is large |
| obverse 10' | If a snake comes close to the feet of a man... |
| obverse 22' | ... is long |
| obverse 14' | If a snake is surrounded by a halo. |
| reverse 11' | If a snake... |
| obverse 15' | If a snake is surrounded by a halo. |
| obverse 4' | If a snake is swollen on a man: either a swollen or an unclean person will become good. |
| reverse 7' | If a snake... and there are plants in a man's house. |
| reverse 5' | ... will die. |
| reverse 10' | If a snake... in a man's house |
| obverse 23' | ... speaks.... |
| reverse 15' | If a snake....... |
| obverse 16' | If a snake falls on a sick person: his illness will be long and he will recover. |
| obverse 24' | ... his wisdom |
| obverse 20' | If a snake stands in the top of the 'finger' on the left: that man will die. |
| obverse 9' | If a snake comes close to a man: a man will become ill. |
| obverse 8' | If a snake falls upon a man and it stands in front of it and does not kill his owner. |
| obverse 13' | If a snake falls between a man and a woman and.... |
| obverse 21' | If a snake... the head of the gall bladder stands on the right: he will die. |
| obverse 18' | If a name is long on his illness: 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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