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K 10981 (P399009)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 7. Ubānu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 10981 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399009 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 7. Ubānu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse? 3' | If head and ear are in balance: he will recover. |
| obverse? 2' | If the head of the horn is seen(?): my army will conquer the enemy. |
| obverse? 1' | ... stands (there) either..., or..., or good..., |
| obverse? 4' | If the top of the right surface of the 'finger' is split: the enemy will come out in famine. |
| obverse? 5' | If the head and left side of the 'finger' are dark: the enemy will come out from the land. |
| reverse? 3' | ...... |
| reverse? 2' | ... the heart(?) |
| obverse? 6' | If its left horn is 15 fingers,... his army(?) |
| obverse? 7' | If the top of the left surface of the 'finger' is split in the middle of the 'finger.' |
| reverse? 1' | ...... |
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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