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BM 098599 (P421874)
CANONICAL > Divination > Other (Dreams, Birds, etc.), Neo-Babylonian, Nineveh · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 098599 |
|---|---|
| ID | P421874 |
| Museum no. | BM 098599 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Other (Dreams, Birds, etc.) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 11' | ... of... |
| 3' | (If) a pigeon... on a date palm(?) |
| 10' | ... his... |
| 5' | ... field(?), field(?) of date palm(?), 2 fingers of date palm(?) |
| 6' | If... in the morning(?) in front of a man, it will fall on his right.... |
| 2' | If a kuptu-plant is located in the field (and) in the lattu-flour: that year will be seized. |
| 1' | ... his... |
| 7' | If... in the morning(?) in front of a man: in his left side a robbery will not.... |
| 9' | ...... he will fall into a haze at his left.... |
| 12' | ...... |
| 4' | If a mongoose emerges on top of a date palm and the namzapa-demon rises: the enemy will... to |
| 8' | ... in his right... you recite... |
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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