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BM 098738 (P421950)
CANONICAL > Divination; CANONICAL > Divination > Other (Dreams, Birds, etc.) > Lecanomancy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM 098738 |
|---|---|
| ID | P421950 |
| Museum no. | BM 098738 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination; CANONICAL > Divination > Other (Dreams, Birds, etc.) > Lecanomancy |
| 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 3 | (If) ditto and it rises to the left:.... |
| reverse 6' | (is) the son of Nergal- |
| reverse 7' | Bi-Uh-u, KAR- |
| obverse 7 | (If) ditto and... |
| obverse 8 | The wall ditto and... |
| reverse 2' | The wall ditto and... |
| obverse 2 | (If) he eats oil in the middle of the wall and... to.... |
| obverse 6 | The city wall is surrounded by a... reed fence |
| reverse 3' | The wall ditto and....... |
| reverse 5' | Written (and) collated |
| obverse 4 | The wall came out from the oil-presser to the left.... |
| obverse 5 | The city wall, its ziggurrat, to... oil |
| reverse 1' | The city wall... |
| reverse 4' | (this is) the copy of a plum tree |
| obverse 9 | The city wall |
| obverse 1 | The wall came out of the oil and...... |
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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