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K 13850 (P400503)
CANONICAL > Divination > Diviner’s manual; CANONICAL > Technical > Procedures > Diviner’s manual, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 13850 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400503 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Diviner’s manual; CANONICAL > Technical > Procedures > Diviner’s manual |
| 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 6' | ... pure... |
| obverse 14' | Witnesses: Sîn and ama of Addaru and Ululu. |
| reverse 5' | ... his |
| obverse 13' | their contracts, the conquest of the eunuch of Ulula |
| obverse 7' | The coils of the colon are 24 in number. |
| reverse 4' | ...... |
| obverse 6' | When you speak to you, you will be satisfied. |
| reverse 2' | ... the land |
| reverse 3' | his... |
| obverse 11' | 12 months of the 1st year, 6 days of the month of Adda-shumu-ibni. |
| obverse 5' | What will you say? |
| obverse 9' | If a sign appears in the sky, it will appear in the underworld. |
| obverse 1' | May these... be repaid. |
| obverse 12' | You sweep the sky in your hand and you observe the light. |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 10' | These are their utterances. |
| obverse 2' | and a star which is in front of it is surrounded by a tablet, you put it in your hands. |
| obverse 8' | Whose good and evil are torn out |
| obverse 3' | Its sign is removed and the city, king, and his people. |
| obverse 4' | In the hand of the enemy he will die and he will die. |
| obverse 15' | The nipa and the eye-roll of the moon are seen together. |
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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