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Multabiltu no. 005 (P421767)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Multabiltu no. 005 |
|---|---|
| ID | P421767 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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 7' | If ditto and the left and left of the gall bladder are split: your army(?), in(?) its field(?)... |
| obverse 10' | If ditto and on the right and on the 3rd you see a sick man(?) |
| obverse 5' | If ditto and the left side of the 'finger' is split: defeat of the god. |
| reverse 3' | in his palace he established. |
| obverse 1' | The 'finger' is thick. The'strength' is present. The right side of the 'finger' is split. The god will turn to a man. |
| obverse 3' | If ditto and the left side of the 'finger' is split: the god will make a rebellion against the man. |
| obverse 6' | If ditto and the right and left are in opposition: your army(?) will not ascend(?) in the top of its field(?) |
| reverse 1' | they rejoiced, and they smote him. |
| obverse 9' | If ditto and it is split on the left and on the left: he will recover. |
| obverse 4' | If ditto and the right 'finger' is split: the anger of the god....... |
| reverse 2' | That tablet wrote, collated, and |
| obverse 8' | If ditto and on the right and on the left there is a sick person: he will not eat food. |
| obverse 2' | his sins he shall guard. |
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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