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K 10608 (P398778)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Sîn (EAE 1–22); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 10608 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398778 |
| 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 > Sîn (EAE 1–22); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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' | If the breast of the upper and lower part is thick: the king... |
| 11' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder: rains will diminish. There will be famine in the land. |
| 2' | If there is a mole on the neck: the king of the land will widen his understanding; Mars. |
| 14' | If he is surrounded by a red throne: the king of the land will....... |
| 7' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder: rain and fog... |
| 6' | The crown of Itar... the king |
| 15' | (If) it is red in a red cloud and it is red: Mars stands with the moon. |
| 4' | If the eye is swollen: the king... |
| 9' | If its neck is surrounded by a halo, the land will make its oil disappear.... |
| 12' | If he is surrounded by a white agate: the enemy will attack the land. rains.... |
| 16' | If he is ill for black and black, rains and floods. |
| 8' | If he sees a man, he will recover. |
| 18' | If he sees a... eye: an eclipse.... |
| 17' | (If) there is a black cloud in the sky and an eclipse is black: the star... with the moon. |
| 13' | (If) an eclipse is white: Jupiter stands with the moon. |
| 3' | If he is seized by a crown: he will recover. |
| 10' | If his feet turn into a halo, the land will make his seals disappear.... |
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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