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K 15043 (P401137)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15043 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401137 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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 2' 4' | ...... |
| col 1' 8' | ...... star(s) stand in front of him; he smote the barley. |
| col 2' 1' | ...... |
| col 1' 3' | ... who is assiduous towards an eclipse, |
| col 1' 5' | ... his... is the greatest of an eclipse. |
| col 1' 1' | ... an eclipse... |
| col 1' 14' | ... the watercourse(?) |
| col 1' 11' | ... his life a star... deaths in the land(?) |
| col 1' 4' | ... his... is the greatest of an eclipse. |
| col 1' 6' | ... will stand in front of him. The land will be destroyed and he will be ill. |
| col 1' 13' | ........ |
| col 1' 2' | ... great... an eclipse |
| col 1' 12' | ...... An eclipse of the Sun... the king over... |
| col 1' 10' | ... : If the sun rises in a black spot and stands there: the land will approach the king. |
| col 1' 7' | ... Ninurta stands in front of him in the open country. |
| col 2' 5' | ... |
| col 2' 6' | ... |
| col 2' 7' | ... |
| col 2' 8' | ... |
| col 1' 9' | ... the Arrow stands in front of it: the land will... water. |
| col 2' 2' | ... Alu(?) |
| col 2' 3' | ... Alu(?) |
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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