Unread Atlas
K 09479 (P398141)
CANONICAL > Divination > Hemerology, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | K 09479 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398141 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Hemerology |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 4' | If the day of the nindtu's disappearance is favourable: the bread of the Moon and the sun will not prosper. |
| col 1' 8' | You take a ritual assemblage. You recite the incantation. |
| col 2' 5' | The king gave his offerings to ama (and) Blet-er. |
| col 1' 12' | He raises his hand with the god. |
| col 2' 3' | Taken care of by a god. |
| col 2' 8' | If on the 21st day: the property of the moon and the sun.... |
| col 1' 2' | shepherd of the great people, meat that is present in the extispicy. |
| col 1' 3' | (If) he does not eat bread, he does not eat his garment, he does not eat his garment. |
| col 1' 5' | Where there is a claim, the haruspex shall not place (it). |
| col 2' 9' | ... of |
| col 1' 7' | In the night before Marduk (and) Itar, the king gave his food. |
| col 1' 1' | If the seventh day is favourable: the night of Marduk and Zarpanitu. |
| col 1' 9' | The eighth day is the day of the eeu-festival of Nabû. |
| col 2' 6' | May he smite the incantation, may he prostrate himself before ama |
| col 1' 10' | In the evening, the shepherd of the great people brought his hand to the guarantor. |
| col 1' 4' | The king of a chariot has not heard much of it. |
| col 2' 1' | The haruspex does not place a claim |
| col 1' 6' | The physician does not change his hand to a sick person. |
| col 2' 2' | The king's punishment for... is not favourable. |
| col 1' 11' | To Nabû (and) Tashmetu, the king, he will give his offerings. |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.