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K 14040 (P400598)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 14040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P400598 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 8' | You do not go on a campaign... |
| reverse 9' | If the earth quakes with the land: fall of.... |
| obverse 4' | ... the year in which the land... |
| obverse 7' | If in Tebet (X) the month....... |
| obverse 3' | ........... and the divine powers of.... |
| obverse 6' | If in Ab (V) the month of....... |
| reverse 6' | The uurgal reeds |
| reverse 3' | ... the foundation of evil... |
| obverse 9' | ... month |
| obverse 8' | ... garden |
| reverse 4' | The kuiru canal(?) |
| reverse 5' | This is what is said(?) |
| reverse 7' | of the tilpantu-offerings |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 5' | ... in month... to month... |
| reverse 2' | Incantation: O lord,... |
| obverse 2' | ... may... be reconciled. |
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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