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K 11970 (P399550)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 11970 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399550 |
| 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 |
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) |
|---|---|
| 14' | ...... : he will become poor. |
| 2' | ... an eclipse will take place : Mars stands with the Moon. |
| 5' | ... the king will widen his understanding. |
| 7' | ... there will be rain(?) and famine. |
| 6' | ... ditto: Venus stands with the moon. |
| 3' | (If)... women (and) males give birth : (variant:) an eclipse will be red. |
| 9' | ...... The Moon was surrounded by a halo |
| 11' | ... he smote(?)... Venus |
| 4' | ... kills him: an eclipse will take place. |
| 1' | ...... a curse.... |
| 12' | ...... he will plunder the land. |
| 10' | It is the hand of a...-su-disease |
| 8' | ... rains(?) in the sky(?) |
| 13' | ... Jupiter stands with the 3rd |
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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