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K 12782 (P400058)
CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12782 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400058 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 6' | ... the prince's land will devastate him. |
| reverse 3 | ... it is favourable. |
| obverse 4' | ... fate of the land will change. |
| reverse 2 | ... the land, as many as there are |
| reverse 1 | ... (If) ditto, his intestines ditto, his joints ditto, his joints ditto: a reign of long days. |
| obverse 3' | ... his father's throne will not become stable. |
| reverse 6 | ... the prince, the goods of his hand, came out to a strong land. |
| obverse 2' | there is... in the land. |
| reverse 5 | ... of the world, lord of the prince. |
| obverse 5' | ... the king's land will seize him. |
| reverse 9 | ... will die and that house will be destroyed. |
| reverse 8 | ............. |
| reverse 7 | ... is split and its rear is from the city of Dilmun and... |
| reverse 4 | ... who enters his land, eats mountain food. |
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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