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K 11848 (P399484)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Sîn ina tāmartīšu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 11848 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399484 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Sîn ina tāmartīšu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 7' | If the Moon at its appearance wears a lunar halo and faces the fog of the lands: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| 6' | If the Moon at its appearance stands there and stands there: Enlil will give his weapons to the enemy. |
| 12' | If the 3rd, at its appearance, is dark and appears: the enemy will take up residence in the land. |
| 3' | If the Moon is surrounded by a lunar halo in a lunar halo: the sky will be surrounded by a cloud. |
| 9' | (If) an eclipse takes place and the gods will afflict (them) with famine (or): young. |
| 17' | If the Moon at its appearance wears a crown: Enlil will swear to the land, but he will not live. |
| 5' | is seen in a cloud. |
| 2' | (If) the Bristle is bright: an eclipse will take place and like the Bristle: at its appearance it is bright. |
| 11' | If the 3rd, at its appearance, it stands in the middle of the sky: the prince will see fear. |
| 10' | If on the 12th day it is low and becomes visible with the sun. |
| 16' | If the Moon is surrounded by a lunar halo, and stands there: the evil of the land will occur. |
| 14' | If the Moon becomes visible on the 30th day and ulpa'e stands below it and in that month an eclipse will take place. |
| 13' | If the Moon at its appearance is seen below and becomes visible: the enemy will take place in the land. |
| 4' | Ditto: it is seen with the sun and seen. : BU is the shubaku of a cloud;... is the shubû of a cloud. |
| 8' | If the Moon at its appearance wears a halo, variant: he will listen to his prayers and stand in the middle of the sky. |
| 15' | (If) the moon at its appearance on the 30th day is below and is seen. |
| 1' | If the Moon at its appearance is like the Pleiades: Enlil will devastate the land for evil; there will be hostilities of the troops, and that land will be destroyed. |
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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