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K 12805 (P400071)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 3. Manzāzu; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12805 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400071 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 3. Manzāzu; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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 col 1 11' | It is good for 3 minas. In 3rd time, the one who said |
| obverse col 1 2' | 2 ewes, not good. The 3rd, it is good. |
| obverse col 1 10' | Whatever is good, three times not good. |
| obverse col 1 13' | If both sides are located, they will experience good impressions. |
| obverse col 1 6' | it stood there. The 1st, it was good. The 2nd, it was good. The 3rd, it was not good. |
| obverse col 1 12' | If the heads are present, they will not be good. |
| obverse col 1 1' | If the right side of the 'finger' is split or of the 'finger': he will not succeed. |
| obverse col 1 4' | the left side of the ewe or of the lung is 1 in number. The 2nd, it is good. |
| obverse col 1 9' | You crush it like a weapon. |
| obverse col 1 5' | If the Well-beings are 3: he will not become good. In 3 days |
| obverse col 1 8' | The other eyes are not good. |
| obverse col 1 7' | If the tops of the colon are present: good. |
| obverse col 1 3' | (If) there is a mole on the right side of the gall bladder: 1 is not good; 2 are not good; 3 is good. |
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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