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K 10539 (P398741)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 10539 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398741 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 9' | If on the 15th day an eclipse takes place: attack of the king. |
| obverse 8' | If on the 15th day an eclipse takes place and the king's floods (and) ditto its end: he will die. |
| reverse 3' | If on the 1st day an eclipse takes place and there will be famine of locusts to the lands. |
| obverse 3' | If on the 20th day an eclipse takes place: ditto. |
| reverse 7' | .... a great wall........... |
| obverse 10' | If on the 20th day an eclipse takes place and the king rises in the throne and takes the throne. |
| reverse 11' | If on the 20th day an eclipse takes place: the king of Akkad will die; the land will not be destroyed. |
| obverse 1' | If on the 15th day an eclipse takes place and there is an eclipse and there is a famine: there will be a famine of the land. |
| obverse 5' | If in Ayyaru (VIII) on the 14th day there is an eclipse and in the middle of the year and in the middle of the year there is an eclipse in the middle of the year. |
| reverse 14' | If the sun in Nisannu (Month I) on the 1st day is red like a fog.... |
| obverse 6' | (If) he (= Ea) stands in the morning watch: the wind will blow in your hand; his campaign will be heard and the king of Elam will give a decision. |
| obverse 4' | If on the 21st day: an eclipse will take place, ditto; ditto: the sea will come out. |
| reverse 4' | If in Addaru (XII) on the 14th day an eclipse takes place and in the south wind blows and in the south wind blows: in the morning watch the eclipse will take place. |
| reverse 2' | If on the 20th day an eclipse takes place: the land will cross over. |
| reverse 6' | To the king of the world he gave a decision; a good thing for Uri, aluqtutututu of Akkad |
| reverse 12' | If on the 21st day: there will be an eclipse. |
| obverse 7' | ... with a weapon you do not return. To his people... |
| reverse 5' | (If) he is ill in the morning watch: he will recover. |
| reverse 10' | If on the 16th day an eclipse takes place: there will be a grave in the land; the king's floods will take place. |
| obverse 9' | If on the 16th day an eclipse takes place and the man will die and the land will be destroyed. |
| reverse 8' | barley... in the tablet of...: he will enter the city and(?) his people. |
| obverse 2' | If on the 16th day an eclipse takes place: ditto. |
| reverse 1' | ... black/black(?) |
| reverse 13' | ...... |
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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