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K 14993 (P401114)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 6. Martu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 14993 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401114 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 6. Martu |
| 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' | It is the eighth day. |
| obverse 20 | If the head of the gall bladder is surrounded by a halo on the right of the gall bladder: the city will take a different path. |
| reverse 2' | If the top of the gall bladder....... |
| reverse 1' | If the head of the house... |
| obverse 13 | If the gall bladder is like a thigh: the king's land will conquer his land. |
| obverse 17 | If the right gall bladder is dark and its head is located in the north: the enemy will take a prince's land. |
| reverse 9' | The evil of the adlu-disease of heaven and earth, the wisdom of ama and Adad |
| obverse 4 | If the top of the gall bladder is like a....... |
| obverse 6 | If the Well-being of the gall bladder is like the eye of....... |
| reverse 8' | Beloved of the great gods of ama and Adad, they gave him wide understanding and |
| obverse 16 | The top of the gall bladder is split. |
| reverse 11' | This tablet wrote and collated, and |
| obverse 14 | If the gall bladder is like a threshing floor, your weapons will prevail over your weapons. |
| obverse 21 | If the right side of the house becomes dark: the king's land will become happy. |
| obverse 7 | You set up a house on top of it. |
| obverse 18 | If the gall bladder is over the coils of the gall bladder: attack of a weapon. |
| reverse 7' | Esarhaddon, great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
| obverse 10 | ... the head of the gall bladder is swollen and its ear is like a dihu-disease... |
| obverse 8 | (If) the head of the gall bladder is swollen:.... |
| reverse 5' | If there is a mole on the right side of the gall bladder: your enemy will attack your city. |
| obverse 9 | If the top of the gall bladder is split in half.... |
| obverse 2 | If the gall bladder is thin and....... |
| obverse 15 | The top of the gall bladder is on the right. |
| obverse 19 | The top of the 'finger' of the lung is 'bound.' |
| obverse 3 | The top of the gall bladder is split. The right... |
| reverse 10' | he married, and he brought him to his aid. |
| obverse 11 | If the Gall Bladder....... |
| obverse 22 | If a barley... is located in the middle of the 'finger' of the 'finger.' |
| obverse 1 | If the gall bladder.......... |
| reverse 12' | in his palace he established. |
| obverse 12 | If the gall bladder is surrounded by a 'well-being' and its'strength' is weak: the land.... |
| reverse 4' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder:... troops(?) |
| obverse 23 | ... reed...... |
| reverse 3' | If there is a mole on the right side of the gall bladder.... |
| obverse 5 | If a barley is located on its exterior from the north....... |
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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