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K 17214 (P402577)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 10. Multābiltu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 17214 |
|---|---|
| ID | P402577 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Bārûtu > 10. Multābiltu |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | If (there is) a mole in the middle surface of the 'finger' of the lung: the enemy will kill him. |
| 9' | If the 'well-being' is present in the middle surface of the 'path' on the left of the gall bladder: the enemy's gods will die. |
| 2' | (If)... is not good: the middle of the 'path' of the right lung will become confused. Your extispicy will come to an end. |
| 3' | If there is a mole on the middle of the 'path' on the right: the enemy will make a defeat; the enemy will not prosper; the troops of the enemy will not prosper; there will be famine in the land. |
| 7' | If he is surrounded by a...: the middle of the 'path' will be confused. The right side of the 'finger' is split. |
| 10' | If the 'well-being' has a 'foot'-mark to the right of the 'finger': this.... |
| 6' | If the middle of the 'finger' of the lung is 3: the enemy will attack my land. |
| 1' | (If) in the middle surface of the 'finger' there is a 'foot'-mark: the enemy will devastate the mountain. The wells, forests, and supreme trees will die and. |
| 8' | If there is a mole in the middle of the 'path' on the left of the gall bladder: the enemy will fall. |
| 4' | If the middle of the 'finger' of the lung is split: the enemy will come close to my place. |
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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