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K 14008 (P400580)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 14008 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400580 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 10' | You set up a ritual assemblage and it will be good. |
| obverse 5' | If ditto and it stands in front of it, and it stands there: |
| reverse 9' | ... prince... |
| obverse 11' | If ditto and it stands on the left side of its left side or on its left side, and it emerges a famine... |
| reverse 3' | ...... ruler |
| obverse 9' | The sanctuaries of the gods whose appearance is bright and whose appearance is bright: |
| obverse 12' | If ditto he is ill and his left ear is swollen: he will die and he will die. |
| obverse 4' | ...... and his death, the palace... |
| obverse 2' | ... eats(?)... the god |
| obverse 7' | He sends (it) to Marduk and Itar and he sees (it). |
| reverse 5' | ... the palace |
| obverse 6' | his head seized, and went out. Marduk and Itar killed him. |
| obverse 3' | If ditto and he... with his... and he is dead: Marduk and Itar will eat food. |
| obverse 8' | If ditto he sees a man and his left eye - either he will approach him, or he will die and die. |
| obverse 1' | ... he smote him |
| reverse 7' | ... in |
| reverse 6' | ... the king(?) |
| reverse 4' | ......... |
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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