Unread Atlas
BM 098583 (P421864)
Neo-Babylonian, Nineveh · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | BM 098583 |
|---|---|
| ID | P421864 |
| Museum no. | BM 098583 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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 4' | On the 9th day you send a small arrow before the king. |
| reverse 2 | To make good omens for them. |
| obverse 7' | When it became small, |
| reverse 7 | May Nabû be a thief. |
| reverse 5 | (If) a king takes hold of the hands of a man and speaks thus: |
| reverse 3 | erauna priestess to those gods |
| obverse 2' | His horns...... |
| obverse 12' | ... date palm(?) to these gods |
| reverse 8 | You are smitten, and Tutu is stricken. |
| obverse 14' | You take it as a loan. |
| reverse 1 | The king and his possessions... |
| reverse 18 | ... reed |
| obverse 1' | ... pure...... |
| obverse 11' | Anu, eg-inimu, |
| obverse 6' | to the border of the land of the enemy he left. |
| obverse 10' | in the morning before Ea, ama and Asallui |
| reverse 11 | he smote, |
| obverse 13' | (a kind of ram) |
| obverse 18' | You put over the ram's head and the thighs and the thighs of the intestines |
| reverse 17 | ......... |
| obverse 16' | After that, the cows will eat the sukku-offering. |
| obverse 19' | and tuahhu meat |
| obverse 5' | became angry with her, and |
| reverse 14 | Your land is the foundation of your land. |
| obverse 8' | On the third day he libates water with juniper. |
| reverse 10 | You are a haruspex, and its inside is a ram. |
| obverse 15' | You crush... erni-trees |
| reverse 12 | If the king makes a good fortune in the sheep offerings |
| reverse 15 | If he is ill, he will not be ill. |
| reverse 4 | You swore an oath by the gods. |
| obverse 17' | You libate wine; you libate wine. |
| reverse 6 | I said this: "The great gods |
| reverse 9 | He speaks three times and |
| obverse 3' | You took it to the border of the land of the enemy and... |
| obverse 9' | (If) he is swollen in front of Marduk: |
| reverse 13 | are established. |
| reverse 16 | ... the hand of your 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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.