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K 12759 (P400038)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12759 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400038 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | If in Ilu (Month I), on the 19th day the star and the moon are seen together: |
| 10' | If in Lalubê on the 15th day the Pleiades and the moon are seen together: |
| 8' | If in Abi on the 17th day the Pleiades and the moon are seen together: |
| 11' | That year, the shrines had become dilapidated. |
| 7' | The year in which the sanctuaries of the king, my lord, were dispersed. |
| 9' | The year in which the sanctuaries of the king, my lord, were dispersed. |
| 1' | That year, the eshrû-priestess was removed from the temple. |
| 2' | If in eruu (Month XII), on the 3rd day the Pleiades and the moon are seen together: |
| 3' | That year, the sanctuaries were dispersed. |
| 5' | That year, the sanctuaries were dispersed. |
| 12' | If on the 13th day of ebtu the Pleiades and the moon are seen together: |
| 4' | If in Pisces on the first day the Pleiades and the moon are seen together: |
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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