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K 12872 (P400108)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 2. Tirānu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12872 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400108 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 2. Tirānu |
| 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' | The coils of the colon are thick. The land.... |
| 9' | If the coils of the colon are swollen and teeming: the enemy will devastate me and kill me. |
| 11' | The coils of the colon are recessed. |
| 2' | The coils of the colon are 15 in number. |
| 14' | If the coils of the colon are white: the prince's land will devastate him. |
| 8' | If the coils of the colon are stricken: the enemy will devastate me. |
| 7' | If the coils of the colon are swollen, they will die before them.... the land.... |
| 5' | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'finger': the army.... |
| 12' | If the coils of the colon are long and are swollen: the land.... |
| 13' | If the coils of the colon are recessed and are thin:....... |
| 6' | If the coils of the colon are in front of them, there will be famine in the future. |
| 10' | If the coils of the colon and the coils of the colon are..., |
| 3' | The coils of the colon are 1 50. The'strength' is present. |
| 1' | If the coils of the colon are recessed on the right like a bed,.......... |
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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