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BPO 2, text 02 C (P400040)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BPO 2, text 02 C |
|---|---|
| ID | P400040 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 4' | If a star whose rear is a thigh, Gula, or a donkey |
| 7' | The Lion, the Field, the north wind blew. That year, cows and sheep seized |
| 11' | (If) Venus in front of.... |
| 17' | If the Kidney Star, Enlil,... |
| 12' | (If) the... star reaches the horizon: evil will occur in the land. |
| 8' | The Lion reaches the Lion. That year, the cattle of the land will be destroyed. |
| 15' | ... incantation, place(?) |
| 2' | ... they are slanders... |
| 16' | his wife(?) |
| 10' | (If) Venus... in month... in the land: fall of cattle. |
| 13' | The... star which stands in the middle of the halo. |
| 14' | If the Lion, Sîn... to the extispicy. |
| 6' | the Lion, the Field reaches that year. |
| 1' | ......... |
| 3' | If the Kidney Star, Ninlil, the great prince |
| 9' | The Kidney Star, on the... side, reaches the wild animals. |
| 5' | If the Kidney Star reaches the Kidney Star : the Kidney Star reaches the Kidney Star. |
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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