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K 10709 (P398843)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 10709 |
|---|---|
| ID | P398843 |
| 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 on the 30th day: the city, the king, and his people will be reconciled. |
| 8' | If he is ill with his unfavorable limbs: there will be famine and hunger. |
| 9' | If he is ill with his unfavorable limbs and a fever: the star will die. |
| 12' | If the day reaches the King: there will be famine in the land. |
| 6' | If from the 1st day until the 30th day a rainstorm... the land.... |
| 11' | If in Ululu (VI) on the 28th day the king will recover; there will be frost in the land. |
| 7' | If the day is dark: Venus and Scorpius will be seen together with the king. There will be famine in the land. |
| 2' | ... the king's land... |
| 10' | If in Abu (Month V) a solar eclipse takes place: the king will become frightened and that land will not prosper. |
| 4' | If on the 30th day the king of Akkad dies: the king of Akkad will not die. The son of the king will reach the highest rank. An eclipse. |
| 3' | If on the 28th day: the king will be well; Adad will conquer the land; there will be a... in the field. |
| 5' | ......... after the year the king his land barley... if the king... |
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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