Unread Atlas
K 10118 (P398502)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Šamaš (EAE 23–35), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | K 10118 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398502 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Šamaš (EAE 23–35) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 1' 7' | If he (= EAE 24(25) I 3) (means): he will die after the king. |
| col 1' 4' | The army will be weakened and small, variant: the army will be scattered. |
| col 1' 15' | ... a nupru-mark you set up (and) the troops of the enemies will take place. |
| col 2' 1' | ... |
| col 2' 3' | ... |
| col 2' 6' | ... |
| col 2' 8' | ... |
| col 1' 18' | ... the land(?) will be destroyed, ditto: abundance, ditto; defeat; in the land... |
| col 1' 11' | If his place is dark: attack of the king; the reign of the king will end. |
| col 1' 20' | ...... |
| col 1' 8' | If in Lullube the king in the morning is surrounded by a halo: Irra will devour in the land. |
| col 1' 2' | If in Apsu the king in the morning is surrounded by a halo: a strong enemy will attack and the land will experience famine. |
| col 1' 16' | ... Adad (means): he thunders. |
| col 1' 9' | If it is surrounded with it on the right: fall of the gods; to Akkad he will make evil. |
| col 1' 12' | If his place is open to the rear of the king: fall of the king of Amurru. |
| col 1' 13' | If there is a mole in the land, the enemy will flee, the land will be destroyed. |
| col 1' 6' | If his place is darkened in front of the king: strong weapons(?) |
| col 1' 10' | If it is swollen on the left of the king: there will be evil and snakes in the land of Amurru. |
| col 1' 14' | (If)... destroys the land(?) (and) destruction will occur in the land of Akkad (and) ditto (it will occur) in the land. |
| col 1' 17' | ... it is white: there will be famine of barley and straw in the land. : If it is white: that night... |
| col 1' 19' | ...... : the king... the west |
| col 2' 10' | ... |
| col 2' 2' | ... |
| col 2' 4' | ... |
| col 2' 5' | ... |
| col 2' 7' | ... |
| col 2' 9' | ... |
| col 1' 5' | If it is surrounded by a 'weapon'-mark on the left of the king: the city will devastate my greatness for the enemy. |
| col 1' 3' | If it is surrounded by a lunar halo on the right: the city will be abandoned. |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.