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K 12504 + K 13493 (P399885)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12504 + K 13493 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399885 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 8' | If a sorcerer... a house... |
| obverse 2' | If a gazelle....... |
| obverse 3' | If a gazelle....... |
| obverse 4' | If a gazelle....... |
| reverse 11' | If he is ill:.... |
| obverse 7' | If a gazelle...... |
| reverse 7' | If a sorcery in a... house |
| obverse 1 | If it is seen on the top of a man's city:.... |
| obverse 9' | If a dog... |
| reverse 10' | If he is a stag... |
| reverse 9' | If he is a stag... |
| reverse 1' | If a sow in... |
| reverse 5' | If there is a mole in a man's house... |
| reverse 2' | If either a ewe or... |
| obverse 10' | If...... |
| reverse 4' | If a man is seized by a slave |
| obverse 5' | If a gazelle... |
| obverse 6' | If a gazelle... |
| obverse 1' | ... ARA3... |
| reverse 3' | If ditto....... |
| obverse 8' | If a lion... |
| reverse 6' | .... if it is a scepter... |
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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