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Šumma izbu no. 5, BM 134518 (P423244)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Šumma izbu no. 5, BM 134518 |
|---|---|
| ID | P423244 |
| Museum no. | BM 134518 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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 3' | If a ewe ditto and its horn is bent down: a reign of many foreign lands will arise. |
| obverse 7' | If a ewe gives birth to a lion and it is provided with a dais: the king's son will become angry with his father. |
| obverse 9' | If a ewe ditto and the head of the snake.... |
| obverse 10' | (If) ditto, those years... |
| obverse 2' | Tibum to the prince(?) |
| obverse 1' | If a ewe gives birth to a lion and it is covered by a cloud: the reign of the land will change. |
| obverse 5' | If a ewe ditto and the head of the ram is present: famine of the king. |
| obverse 4' | If a ewe ditto and the head of an ox is present: the prince's land will destroy his enemy's land. |
| obverse 8' | If a ewe ditto and the head of the horse.... |
| obverse 6' | If a ewe gives birth to ditto and it is provided with a scorpion's head: the king will become happy. |
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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