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K 15256 (P401269)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Ištar (EAE 50–68), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 15256 |
|---|---|
| ID | P401269 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Ištar (EAE 50–68) |
| 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 15' | ... that... rain |
| 5' | If the star(s) are not present in the sky, the land will eat as much as.... |
| 15' | ... in that year the king of Akkad will die. |
| reverse 5' | ... he has smashed... |
| reverse 18' | ... will rain. |
| reverse 8' | .............. |
| reverse 10' | ... rains and floods... |
| reverse 13' | ... rains and floods... |
| reverse 14' | ...... |
| 8' | If Enlil... from... |
| reverse 12' | ...... |
| 9' | If Enlil binds it with the ground |
| 6' | If a star is stricken(?), the horns of the army are stricken(?) |
| 16' | ... the days of the king are inside |
| 7' | his hand will not be smashed |
| 2' | If a planet becomes visible and rains(?) |
| reverse 17' | ... rain |
| reverse 6' | ... its stars in the blood? |
| reverse 4' | ...... will fall into the moon. |
| 14' | ... he smote and |
| reverse 2' | ... he... |
| 4' | (If) a flood goes and the field....... |
| 1' | (If) ditto(?)......... |
| reverse 11' | ... his... |
| reverse 9' | ... rains and floods... |
| 11' | If Ea's aguu-disease overwhelms the one of Zababa: floods will come. |
| 10' | If Nergal goes out from the ground: |
| 3' | If a planet in Ayyaru (XII) |
| 13' | ... enters the evening watch from the Field. |
| 12' | If Ea... his shoulder to Zababa, he will go; the flood(?) |
| reverse 3' | ... there are |
| reverse 1' | ... rains and floods will come |
| reverse 16' | ... that... rain |
| reverse 7' | ... its stars...... |
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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