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Nisaba 2, pl. IX 3 (P398416)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 2, pl. IX 3 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398416 |
| 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 ukudu-demon stands in his dream: he will conquer the entire land. |
| 9' | If in the horn of the moon a dark cloud stands on the night: rains will come. |
| 16' | If the ukudu-star stands in its left horn: the king of Uruk will make no change with the king. |
| 2' | If the Pleiades come close to its front.... |
| 3' | If the Moon, at its appearance, the Shepherd stand in its top: in that year, the king of the land will make a great land small.... |
| 12' | If a man’s horns stand inside his horns: the kings of the land will conquer. |
| 17' | If the Moon at its appearance the Scorpion is like a lion: lions and wolves will come out and |
| 18' | The kings of the land will make the lands bow down at their feet. |
| 14' | If a sow stands between its horns: the city whose wall is strong, his lord will devastate him. |
| 4' | If the Shepherd of Anu stands inside it: the king of the world.... |
| 8' | If a red cloud stands in the horn of the moon: rains will come. |
| 7' | If in its right horn there is a yellow cloud: an eclipse will take place. |
| 19' | If the Scorpion stands inside it: the flood will come and floods.... |
| 10' | If the Moon at its appearance the Bow stands in its horn: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| 6' | If a Perforation stands in its left horn: rain. |
| 11' | If the Moon at its appearance is surrounded by a ukudu-star: the kings of the land will make a rebellion. |
| 5' | If the Moon at its appearance, on its right horn, cloudburst; an eclipse of the evening watch. |
| 15' | If a sow stands in its right horn: the governor of Elam, his servants will kill him. |
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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