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BM 098980 (P422072)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Babylonian, Nineveh · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 098980 |
|---|---|
| ID | P422072 |
| Museum no. | BM 098980 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 6' | If a house is surrounded by its gates: he will become happy. |
| 15' | If a house, its gates are open to the sun: that house will give birth to its owner. |
| 3' | If a house's gates are swollen: that house will be destroyed. |
| 14' | If a house - its gates are swollen: that house will be abandoned. |
| 7' | Ditto: his heart is not good; ditto: that house will be destroyed. |
| 12' | If a house is surrounded by gates: that house will be destroyed. |
| 11' | If a house's gates are split apart: the house will not enter a house; that house will be destroyed. |
| 4' | If a house's gates are wide, they will enter him. |
| 13' | If a house, its gates are open: that house will reside. |
| 16' | If a house's gates are open to the sun: that house will not be sold. |
| 17' | If a house's gates are open to the south: that house will dwell; it will be good. |
| 5' | If a house's gates become ditto, its heart is happy. |
| 2' | If a house's gates are full of noise: that house will be destroyed. |
| 1' | If a house is surrounded by doors: that house will have a god. |
| 9' | If a house does not open its gates : that house will be destroyed. |
| 10' | If a house's gates are split, a house will be surrounded by a street: that house will be destroyed. |
| 8' | If a house's gates are dark: he will die; he will be satisfied. |
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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