K 11560 (P399317)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 11560 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399317 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By nn · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | If an eclipse [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | [...] the evening watch [...], |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] from the beginning [...], |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [... in] his [... there is] an eclipse [...], |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [If ...] stands in the east [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | The king of Akkad will die. (That means) in the [...], |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | in the west [...]. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | 38th section of the mukallimtu-commentary on Enūma [Anu Enlil, with oral explanations], |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | following the sayings of a scholar, (referring to entries) from "If an eclipse [...]". |
| Reverse [8:9] r 9'9'–r 9'9' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, the great king, the mighty king, [(king of the universe), king of Aššur, on whom Nabû and Tašmētum] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | have bestowed mercy [and whom they have raised] like a father [and a mother]. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | AN.GE₆ [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [(x) x EN.NUN].AN.USAN₂ [...] | |
| 2' | [(x) x ul]-⸢la⸣-nu-um-ma ⸢ana⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [(x) x x x] ⸢x⸣-šu₂ AN.⸢GE₆⸣ [GAR-ma ...] | |
| 4' | x] ⸢x⸣ ina {d}UTU.E₃ {d}UTU.E₃ GUB-[ma ...] | |
| 5' | LUGAL URI{ki} UŠ₂ ina {tu₁₅}[...] | |
| 6' | ina {tu₁₅}MAR.TU [...] | |
| 7' | 38 nis-hu mu-kal-lim-ti ⸢U₄⸣ [AN {d}EN.LIL₂ šu-ut KA] | |
| 8' | ša₂ KA UM.ME.A ša₂ ŠA₃ AN.⸢GE₆⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 9' | E₂.GAL {m}AN.ŠAR₂-DU₃-A MAN GAL MAN ⸢dan⸣-[nu (MAN ŠU₂ MAN {kur}aš-šur{ki)} ša₂ {d}NA₃ u {d}taš-me-tu₄] | |
| 10' | ARHUŠ TUKU-MEŠ-šu-ma ki-ma AD [u AMA u₂-šar-bu-u-šu₂] | |
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
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
- 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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