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K 09889 (P398378)
CANONICAL > Divination > Oracular Question, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09889 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398378 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Oracular Question |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse? 7' | .... wool and a... garment |
| obverse? 5 | ... from the truth... of... |
| reverse? 3' | ... their weapons |
| obverse? 10 | ... its right and left...... |
| obverse? 3 | ............ |
| obverse? 9 | ......... |
| obverse? 12 | ... inside |
| reverse? 1' | ... the land |
| reverse? 4' | ... the sar(?), the abiktu-priestess(?) |
| reverse? 6' | ... the mouth of the suhurtu... |
| reverse? 8' | ... he will write... that he will write... |
| obverse? 11 | ... his...... |
| reverse? 11' | ... in the land......... |
| obverse? 6 | ... the place of seed(?) |
| reverse? 2' | ... Isagpa, priest of |
| obverse? 4 | ... where...? |
| reverse? 5' | ... fullness of the enemy... |
| reverse? 10' | ... his heart is swollen, he is bright: evil... |
| obverse? 1 | ...... and the earth... his land |
| obverse? 13 | ... my body(?) |
| obverse? 2 | ... Babylon in the morning |
| reverse? 9' | ... his... he will take...... |
| obverse? 8 | .......... |
| obverse? 7 | ......... |
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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