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BM 121069 (P422340)
CANONICAL > Divination > Physiognomy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM 121069 |
|---|---|
| ID | P422340 |
| Museum no. | BM 121069 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Physiognomy |
| 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 col 4? 7 | If he is ill for two years: he will die. |
| obverse col 1 9' | If a sorcery gives birth to multicoloured pigs : variant: he will recover. |
| obverse col 1 5' | If the right side of the gall bladder is split and the left side of the gall bladder is covered: she will die. |
| reverse col 4? 3 | If there is a mole on the left side of the 'finger': the'strength' will prosper. |
| reverse col 4? 8 | If locusts are dimmed: variant: he will become satisfied. |
| reverse col 4? 9 | If he afflicts a fever: he will not die. |
| obverse col 1 6' | If a man, ditto, on the right and on the left side of the namratu-demon. |
| reverse col 4? 2 | If he is ill: he will not become happy. |
| obverse col 1 7' | If the right and left of the lung are split: the household in which she lives will become happy. |
| reverse col 4? 1 | If a woman - her fingers are long: she will build a house. |
| reverse col 4? 5 | If there is a mole on the left side : he will become poor. |
| obverse col 1 1' | If the beams of her hands... together: |
| obverse col 1 3' | If there is a mole on the left side of her body : a great god... |
| obverse col 1 2' | If a sow gives birth to a sow : (variant:) If a sow gives birth to a sow : that woman will die. |
| obverse col 1 4' | If he is ill with a mountain: he will die : if he is very ill : he will die. |
| reverse col 4? 4 | If he is ill and he has a sorrow: : If he is ill : he will not be satisfied. |
| obverse col 1 8' | If he sees omens, ditto: the days will be long; when she sees she will conquer. |
| reverse col 4? 6 | If a woman's hands and feet are swollen: end of day. |
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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