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DT 004 (P424464)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Sîn ina tāmartīšu; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | DT 004 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424464 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Sîn ina tāmartīšu; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| 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? 6' | ...... the day of Duuzu (Month IV), the day to be black |
| reverse? 10' | ... life |
| obverse? 4' | ... the day of Duuzu (Month IV), the day for the black-headed |
| reverse? 8' | ... a star is visible... and |
| obverse? 10' | ... the great... of Zibanitu(?) is surrounded by a yellow-green halo |
| reverse? 4' | ... their utterances have come to the ground. |
| obverse? 9' | The fourth (time) of ebtu (Month X), the eclipse took place(?) |
| reverse? 1' | ... the middle watch... |
| obverse? 5' | ... his people... |
| reverse? 7' | ... ama... Adad |
| reverse? 6' | (If) Adad destroys and his hand is swollen: he will see a lightning flash. |
| obverse? 8' | On the 28th/29th(?) day of Simanu (Month III), alternatively in Abu (Month V), in Duuzu (Month IV), in Duuzu |
| obverse? 2' | ... of Duuzu ( month IV) on day to day... |
| obverse? 11' | ... a man... to a man... king(?) |
| obverse? 7' | ... he will widen... :... will come out. |
| reverse? 2' | ... the land of Subartu and the land of Amurru |
| reverse? 3' | If a watch over Akkad : if a watch over the land Subartu : |
| obverse? 3' | ... he will be seized. : kamatu... |
| reverse? 9' | ...... |
| reverse? 5' | ... Adad roars...... |
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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