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K 11121 (P399115)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 11121 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399115 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial |
| 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 7' | (If) a snake kills him: that man will die. |
| obverse 11' | If a snake is located on a man's neck and does not know it, he will die and he will die. |
| obverse 2' | ... his property and property...... |
| reverse 1 | If a snake... its head.... |
| obverse 9' | That man: the year... the god's hand will not be abandoned. |
| obverse 6' | If a snake is surrounded by a 'foot'-mark and it cries out (as if) it cries out (against it), and it cries out (against it), and it cries out (again) |
| obverse 12' | (If) a man is seized by incantation of dispelling: that man will be killed in the... of the king, the enemy and the prince. |
| obverse 8' | If a snake is surrounded by a 'foot'-mark and it is surrounded by a 'weapon'-mark and it is surrounded by a 'weapon'-mark and a snake does not kill him, and they return him. |
| obverse 5' | ... whether hand of a man or feet of a man, |
| obverse 3' | ... the scepter of the god,... the hand of the god, the scepter of the god. |
| reverse 2 | (If) god and king kill him for good deeds and happiness. |
| reverse 3 | If a snake is seen in front of a man: he will die. |
| obverse 1' | ......... |
| obverse 10' | If a snake is surrounded by a neck: a man will die and in the path of his enemy will die. |
| obverse 4' | ... he placed... on him, and he made his (personal) god swear to him. |
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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