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K 20687 (P419072)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Divination > Oracular Question; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 20687 |
|---|---|
| ID | P419072 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Divination > Oracular Question; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts |
| 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 col 1' 6 | The ziggurat, the ziggurat,... |
| obverse col 1' 8 | he saw him |
| obverse col 1' 2 | he will raise her... |
| obverse col 1' 5 | The amtu-demon, the pure one... |
| reverse col 3' 2' | ...... |
| reverse col 3' 4' | Wording for... |
| obverse col 1' 1 | ama, lord of judgments, Adad, lord of battle |
| reverse col 3' 3' | ... stone |
| obverse col 1' 9 | The ziggurat...... |
| obverse col 1' 4 | The adû-demon which in his body |
| reverse col 4' 1' | Like his seed... |
| obverse col 1' 7 | Whom a good hand... |
| obverse col 1' 3 | At the slaughter of a ram and a pig |
| reverse col 4' 2' | Palace of Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria. |
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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