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K 12280 (P399735)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12280 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399735 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 3' | If a Weapon on the right |
| reverse 6' | son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria. |
| reverse 10' | That tablet, by the command of the army, |
| reverse 5' | Assurbanipal, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria |
| obverse 3' | ... from behind... before Ekallu |
| obverse 1' | ... on the left like a weapon |
| obverse 4' | ... which is located in its midst and... |
| obverse 7' | ......... |
| reverse 2' | ... many... |
| reverse 12' | for my royal tribute... |
| reverse 9' | Copy of Assyria, Sumer and Akkad. |
| obverse 5' | ......... |
| obverse 9' | ...... |
| reverse 11' | I wrote and checked and |
| obverse 11' | ... plant(?) |
| reverse 7' | son of Sennacherib, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 2' | his... like a weapon |
| reverse 8' | According to the wording of this tablet, |
| reverse 4' | The one who smote me(?) |
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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