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ACh Sin 06 (P399561)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ACh Sin 06 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399561 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | : the king of the world will reach his goal: he will become poor, his son will seize the throne and the land will see the lord of the land. |
| 9' | If its right horn is long to the north: in Taritu (VII) on the first day there is an eclipse and there will be hostilities. |
| 8' | (If) a man is killed and the enemy's army will be killed : a god will be killed : enemy will be killed and the troops of the king will be killed. |
| 3' | If its right horn is long to the north: in Taritu (VII) on the 15th day: (variant:) on the 16th day an eclipse takes place and.... |
| 4' | If (there is) a mole on the king of Akkad, he will not (have to) eat food(?), (or) he will (have to) eat food(?), (or) he will (have to) eat food and. |
| 2' | (If) there is a wide ditch in the open country: there will be famine of Elam in the land and the land. |
| 7' | If its right horn is long to the south: in Taritu (Month VII), on the 20th day ditto; an eclipse will take place and Adad will... |
| 13' | (If) an eclipse takes place and rains and floods go out and... trees and.... |
| 10' | (If) ditto or there is an anomaly: the enemy will... |
| 11' | If the moon is surrounded by a fog: there will be famine in the land. |
| 5' | If its right horn is long to the west: in Taritu (VII) on the 14th day ditto. |
| 1' | If the Moon in Taritu (VII) on the 1st day at its appearance is surrounded by a halo: in Taritu (VII) on the 15th day there will be an eclipse. |
| 12' | If the Moon in Arasamnu (VIII) on the fourth day at its appearance in its right horn: the Crab will stand in Arasamnu (VIII). |
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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