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If a city, vol. 1, 239 (P421797)

Omens, Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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Designation	If a city, vol. 1, 239
ID	P421797
Museum no.	BM 030431
Collection	British Museum, London, UK
Language	Akkadian
Period	Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Genre	Omens

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)
19'	... a severe illness will pass him...
15'	... a man
18'	... in his limbs...
1'	... Itar made
13'	... of Itar, in his womb, his dead.
12'	... he did not say in his heart.
9'	... the praise of his god, his ewe.
16'	... is finished: he will not reach the end.
2'	... that man's day will be long. : reeds
5'	... the king(?) is above him
11'	... will fall in a place that is not known.
14'	... his father's son...
6'	... he does not say: "The road to capture is not to go."
8'	... that man, hand of a god's land
3'	... he will die from his illness.
4'	... his twelfth regnal year will die.
17'	... he will be killed.
10'	... he will conquer his word. : His land
7'	... hattu-disease of the god : naur-disease of the god to a man.

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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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