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K 12646 (P399960)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12646 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399960 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 11' | (means) : Mercury becomes visible and sets. |
| 3' | ...... in |
| 7' | If the Scorpion's horns are dark: attack of the enemy. |
| 14' | (means) : Mercury becomes visible and is not visible |
| 15' | ..... |
| 5' | If the Scorpion reaches Lisi: the stars of the head of Scorpius will rage. |
| 13' | If..................... |
| 6' | : Lisi swore, and |
| 9' | If the Field stands all day as if it were a mountain and it did not appear in a black spot: the king will die and there will be hunger. |
| 4' | ...... : Jupiter... is bright. |
| 8' | (means) : a planet stands inside the Scales. |
| 2' | ... in |
| 16' | ... reed |
| 12' | : he sees and its days are finished and on the day that ditto it is not visible.... |
| 10' | ... is not seen in a black spot; in the evening, ulpa'e is not present. |
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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