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K 09934 (P398402)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 6. Martu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09934 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398402 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 6. Martu |
| 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 4 | If the right side of the gall bladder is split: my army will be killed. |
| obverse 11 | If there is a hole in the top of the left surface of the gall bladder, it is black and dark: the city will be destroyed. |
| obverse 9 | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder: the city will be destroyed. |
| obverse 6 | If there is a mole on the right side of the gall bladder: he will die and he will become black. |
| obverse 3 | If there is a mole on the right side of the 'finger': your city will be destroyed. The enemy will devastate with weapons. |
| obverse 8 | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder: the city will be destroyed. The enemy's attack will take place in a weapon. |
| obverse 2 | (If) he is placed in a threshing floor on my army: |
| obverse 1 | If there is a mole on the right side of the gall bladder: attack of the city. |
| obverse 5 | If there is a mole on the right side of the gall bladder: the king of the upshaû-demon will not give him to god. |
| obverse 7 | If on the right of the gall bladder there is a hole and it is black: a reign of long days. |
| obverse 10 | If the Well-being is located on the left side of the gall bladder: the flood will take place. |
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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