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K 12891 (P400119)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 12891 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400119 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 3 5' | If a scorpion... in a table: that foundation.... |
| col 2 1' | If... |
| col 3 6' | If the Scorpion in a table |
| col 3 4' | If a scorpion (gloss: break) on the throne:.... |
| col 2 2' | If the Scorpion... in his body... |
| col 3 3' | If a Scorpius is located on a bed: ditto: wife of. |
| col 2 5' | If the Scorpion's horn in its left horn... |
| col 2 3' | If the Scorpion's horn... in his neck... |
| col 3 1' | If a Scorpion is located on the bed of a man and a woman ditto and a woman ditto.... |
| col 2 8' | If a Scorpion in... |
| col 2 4' | If the Scorpion's horn in its right....... |
| col 3 2' | If a Scorpius is located on the lower part of the bed: a man's bed ditto. |
| col 2 6' | If the Scorpion in....... |
| col 2 7' | If the Scorpion in....... |
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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