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BM 099099 (P422133)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Babylonian, Nineveh · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | BM 099099 |
|---|---|
| ID | P422133 |
| Museum no. | BM 099099 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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 2 | If... and its left horn is bent back: attack of the sixth year of Adad in the land. |
| obverse 7 | If he sees a dark spot and its horns are pointed on the front of the sky: he will make a profit. : If he sees a dark spot and its horns stand on the left: he will diminish. |
| obverse 5 | If he is ill and his right horn is bent down, his left horn is bent down. |
| obverse 6 | If it is dark and its left horn is bent back and its right horn is split: the enemy's land will be destroyed in a hostile place. |
| obverse 1 | If the Moon at its appearance is white and its right horn is bent down, its left horn is pointed. |
| obverse 3 | If... and its horns, the front (is) above, (and) the shoulder (is) covered in beer: attack of hostilities against the land. |
| obverse 4 | If... and its horns stand below the surface of the 'finger.' |
| obverse 9 | If it is seen and its left horn is bent back and its right horn is pointed: the land will be destroyed and evil will be present in the land. |
| obverse 8 | If it is seen and its right horn is bent down, its left horn is pointed: the people will give their dowry to silver. |
| obverse 10 | If the horns...... Akkad... |
| obverse 11 | ... horns |
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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