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K 17209 (P402573)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 17209 |
|---|---|
| ID | P402573 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 13' | .... |
| obverse 2' | If Adad thunders like a horse: that land will become stable in front of her. |
| obverse 12' | ... will take place |
| obverse 1' | ...... |
| obverse 5' | If Adad thunders like a bird: the land's foundations will give to silver. |
| obverse 8' | If Adad thunders: Adad will devastate the harvest of the city (and) Adad. |
| obverse 3' | If Adad thunders like a donkey: the city will be destroyed. |
| obverse 10' | If Adad thunders, Adad will devastate the people of the land. |
| obverse 7' | If Adad thunders: |
| obverse 11' | ... he will die. |
| obverse 9' | If Adad thunders: Adad will make peace in the land. |
| obverse 6' | If Adad thunders 1: the city will be destroyed. |
| obverse 4' | If Adad thunders like a goose: he will devour the land. |
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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