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BM 131656 (P423159)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BM 131656 |
|---|---|
| ID | P423159 |
| Museum no. | BM 131656 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 9' | Tablet of Nabû-zuqup-ukn, son of Marduk-umu-iqa. |
| reverse 8' | It is an inscription written in this papyrus. |
| reverse 5' | If he is a ecstatic, he will say:... |
| obverse 1 | If a man... |
| reverse 1' | If he is constantly worried: his illness will be scattered.... |
| reverse 10' | (Property of) Gabbi-ilani-ere |
| reverse 4' | If Gutium....... |
| reverse 11 | Kalu, the 10th day of Simanu, eponymy of a-Aur-dubbu, governor of Tuan. |
| reverse 3' | If he is very ill:... |
| reverse 12 | Year 15 of Sargon (II), king of Assyria. |
| obverse 3 | ... |
| obverse 4 | ... |
| obverse 5 | ... |
| reverse 7' | The 84th tablet: If a city is located on a height: 59 (lines) is its name. |
| reverse 6' | If a man... a street in his path: a god will take him away and... |
| obverse 2 | ...... |
| reverse 2' | If he is ill:... his body... |
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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