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K 15158 (P401204)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15158 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401204 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 8' | If the Kidney Star reaches the morning: the people of the land will eat food. |
| 34' | If a man, when he is seized in the womb, Itar will kill a woman in the land. |
| 25' | ... stands in the east and two double-hours are split, and they pass the north wind. |
| 21' | (and) the floods and floods will come. |
| 10' | (If) in the presence of Anu it rises (and) rains are bright, rains are bright, rains are bright. |
| 37' | If Amurru-da''ina, sons of Nippur, will not be repaid.... |
| 18' | If the Pleiades are white in its name: there will be hunger. |
| 31' | If Ululdi becomes visible in the west and with a dark spot: he will not cross (the river) and he will recover. |
| 24' | (If) he is stricken: my troops will not go up to the quay; he will not go up to the south. |
| 9' | ... enemy kings...; alternatively, the people of the land are many.... |
| 17' | If the Kidney Star, when it rises, is black: Enlil will destroy Elam. There will be hostility in the land. |
| 3' | ... in the evening... |
| 6' | If the Kidney Star stands in Dumuzi and ama in the path of Anu. |
| 32' | (and) the gods of the land of Amurru will divide him. |
| 35' | He shall weigh out in the evening, and |
| 30' | The gods will be reconciled with the land of Amurru. |
| 11' | (If) its position is favourable (and) it rises in the east and it is bright (and) bright: barley will be brought in. |
| 12' | If the Pleiades are red in its middle: famine of the people. |
| 19' | (If) the Field reaches its name: there will be hostility in the land. |
| 26' | (If) he is not a double-hour (or) he is not a double-hour (or) he constantly seeks out the west... |
| 36' | If Ullu has sinned against him, he will return(?) |
| 15' | If Ululdi-duri in a month is seized, and the land will be seized by floods. |
| 33' | If the Bristle rises and its position is bright: enemy attack. |
| 5' | If the Kidney Star stands in the east and west in the path of Enlil and is good for Akkad. |
| 4' | ... eresha-plant... |
| 2' | ... before ama |
| 22' | They are constantly frightened in the land and the head is located. |
| 28' | If Ululdi-duri does not conquer the territory, and he flees the land: |
| 7' | If the Kidney Star in ama and ama in the path of Ea is good for the Westland. |
| 20' | If the Kidney Star is located in its middle: the king of the world will die in the land. Nergal will devour the land. |
| 38' | If in Nisannu the Bow... |
| 13' | The governor of Akkad will experience joy. |
| 29' | If Ululdi becomes visible in the west and follows the mountain and crosses it. |
| 16' | (and) their floods he brought down. Adad will make his rains plentiful for the land. |
| 14' | If the Field(?), when it rises, is like a fog: the land will be scattered in its entirety. |
| 23' | If a fog rolls in its year after it: fall of cattle and horses.... |
| 27' | If Ululdi becomes good with the yoke: it will become good for the Lion. : It will become bright. |
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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