K 11986 (P399560)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 11986 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399560 |
| 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 [1:2] 2'2'–2'2' | [If ...] does not have [...], the eclipse [...]. |
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | [...] the eclipse. "To throw" (nadû)] (means) "to fall" (maqātu) [...]. |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | [... "to throw" (nadû)] (means) "to fall" (maqātu); "to turn upside down" (nabalkutu) (means) "not to succeed" (lā tarāṣu); [...]. |
| Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7' | [...] covers [...]. |
| Obverse [7:8] 8'8'–8'8' | [...] ... and covers the whole of it and leaves nothing behind [...]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣ [x x x]-⸢in⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | ...] NU GAL₂ AN.⸢GE₆⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...]-⸢x⸣ AN.GE₆ na-du-u₂ ma-qa-tu₄ [...] | |
| 4' | [... na-du-u₂] ⸢ma⸣-qa-tu₄ na-bal-ku-tu₄ la ta-ra-ṣu [...] | |
| 5' | [...] ni-ba-an-ma [...] | |
| 6' | [...] ir-⸢mu⸣-[...] | |
| 7' | [...] ir-ri-⸢mu⸣ [...] | |
| 8' | [...] ⸢x-x-ma gab-bi-šu₂ ir-rim⸣-ma mim-ma NU TAG₄ [...] |
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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