K 11688 (P399394)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 11688 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399394 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 4' | If the Moon at its left horn is red: the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| 8' | (If) on the 19th day it is seen with the sun and : eclipse will take place and the eclipsing... like its appearance. |
| 1' | ... lord |
| 3' | If the Moon at its left: there will be evil. |
| 5' | If the Moon at its left: business will diminish. |
| 10' | (In) Abu, that month, this month, this month, this month, this month, this month, this month, the eponymy of the king, my lord. |
| 6' | If the Moon is surrounded by a lunar halo that is not bright: the halo will be like its appearance and.... |
| 7' | On the 14th day, when I watched I did not see it. On the 15th day, as much as there was, in... |
| 9' | The day of the second day, the day of the fifth day, the day of the fourth day: |
| 2' | If the Moon is eclipsed on the 15th day: the sun will be eclipsed in the sky. |
| 11' | If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely, and one horn meets the other: there will be truth in the land, and the son will speak the truth with his father. |
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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