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BM 099073 (P422114)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Babylonian, Nineveh · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 099073 |
|---|---|
| ID | P422114 |
| Museum no. | BM 099073 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 4' | (If) the top of the middle surface of the 'finger' of the lung is split on the right, until ditto: the king will devastate and attack the man. |
| reverse 5' | The base of the middle surface of the 'finger' is 'loose.' The right of the 'finger' is split. The 'lion' is stricken.... |
| obverse? 8' | (If) a wall on its right: a flood will take place. : (If) a wall on its left.... |
| obverse? 13' | the wall |
| obverse? 10' | (If) he sees a wall and next to it: he will fall into a pit and.... |
| obverse? 4' | (If) a wall stands on top of it: your army will fall........ |
| reverse 12' | The wall is surrounded by a moat of 15...; it is surrounded by a... man's body. |
| reverse 1' | ...... 15... |
| obverse? 3' | The wall in the house is 15 as much as... |
| reverse 10' | The wall was surrounded by a lunar halo. The 15th, a black man... |
| reverse 15' | The wall, on the right...... |
| reverse 6' | (If) a wall is located inside a lunar halo on the right: a man's death. |
| obverse? 6' | In front of(?) the wall(?)... eats(?) his army(?) |
| reverse 7' | The wall is surrounded by a lunar halo on the right and is white: illness, illness, and life. |
| reverse 13' | The wall is surrounded by a halo on the 15th, it is yellow-green: a man... |
| reverse 2' | ... the 15th, the 15th, the 15th, the left... |
| obverse? 1' | The wall of the weapon |
| obverse? 9' | (If) a wall in front of it (= EAE 24(25) I 20) (means) its right and left... |
| obverse? 5' | (If) a wall stands in front of it:.......... |
| reverse 8' | The wall was surrounded by a lunar halo on the 15th. The king... to a man. |
| reverse 9' | (If) the wall is surrounded by a lunar halo on the right and is yellow-green: on that day An(?) |
| obverse? 12' | The wall of the weapon |
| obverse? 2' | The wall of the weapon |
| reverse 11' | The wall is surrounded by a halo of 15 white pegs, a man's body... |
| reverse 3' | (If) a fog rolls on the right side of the gall bladder: the king(?)... |
| obverse? 11' | City, city, exiting?...... |
| obverse? 7' | (If) the city wall is surrounded by a fog: the enemy will fall in the hand(?) |
| reverse 14' | The wall is surrounded by a hole of 15 cress, white(?)... a man |
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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