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Multabiltu no. 003 (P400053)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Multabiltu no. 003 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400053 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 4 2' | 16 of her...s they shall release her and after her stipulated term will be favorable. |
| reverse col 4 10' | You recite (the incantation) in an unfavorable omen. You do (the ritual) three times. |
| reverse col 4 12' | (If) he sees the windows, he sets the head, and he sets the fire. |
| reverse col 4 3' | May the fires be set upon your body, the good and evil omens. |
| reverse col 4 8' | You recite (the incantation) in an unfavorable case. |
| reverse col 4 4' | ..., |
| reverse col 4 7' | (If) in a favorable case, seven weapons or one or two are located: hand of ama will not prosper. |
| reverse col 4 11' | You recite (the incantation) in a favorable case. |
| reverse col 4 9' | In a favorable case, you can be either one or two. |
| reverse col 4 1' | The 16th?...... they wrote her and... their... |
| reverse col 4 5' | (If) they are located on an unfavorable side: the seven-wheeled wagons or one-wheeled wagon. |
| reverse col 4 6' | (If) ama goes on his army's side: he will be well. |
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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