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K 09991 (P398431)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 3. Manzāzu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 09991 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398431 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 3. Manzāzu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | ... two... you recite the incantation twice. |
| 4' | If in the beginning of the'station' there is a 'weapon'-mark and the 'black-headed' 'weapon'-mark: your army will be killed by the god. |
| 6' | ... two... will fall and die. |
| 10' | ... will fall and fall, and he will take away his gold. |
| 8' | ... days, the prince's end. |
| 11' | ... and he will be seized twofold. He will be killed and he will be killed. |
| 1' | If there are 2 omens on the top of the'station': the king will die. |
| 3' | If there is a mole on the top of a man: defeat of the god. |
| 9' | ...... will enter the palace. |
| 2' | If there is a mole on the top of the'station': 2 omens will fall. |
| 7' | ... the days of the prince will be long. |
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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