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K 09489 (P398146)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09489 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398146 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 13' | If the Ea star reaches the surface of the field: not good. |
| 7' | If a sow gives birth to a green tree: an eclipse of the king.... |
| 8' | If a kid approaches a planet: sesame will prosper. |
| 2' | If the Yoke Constellation is dark: the king of Akkad will die and the troops of Elam will prosper with the sword. |
| 17' | If the Field reaches the Apsu: in that year the river will fall to the lands. |
| 20' | ...... |
| 12' | The enemy will devastate the land that has no evil. |
| 1' | the wall of the land... |
| 5' | If a kid is very yellow: an eclipse |
| 3' | If the Yoke Constellation carries radiance: in the land it will.... |
| 9' | If a kid approaches the Pleiades: Adad will devastate. |
| 6' | If a kid is very black: he will die. |
| 11' | If the Yoke is dark: Ea will be dark: Enlil will make the land tremble for evil. |
| 15' | If the Field, when it emerges, is seen in the beginning of Du'uzu: loss of property. |
| 4' | If a ewe gives birth to a lion: that star will be very red for Ea; its men will Adad will devastate him. |
| 19' | If the Bristle reaches its stars: there will be frost in the netherworld. |
| 16' | If the Field, when it emerges, is bright: in the beginning of Abu, the harvest will not prosper. |
| 10' | If the Crab reaches the Bird: the sesame will be good. |
| 18' | If the Field is very red: the field will prosper. |
| 14' | If the Elamite star afflicts a fog: the harvest of the land will prosper. |
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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