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DT 123 (P424497)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | DT 123 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424497 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 3' | If a fog appears in the sky and....... |
| col 2' 6' | If a fog rolls in the sky...: the end of the land....... |
| col 2' 8' | 17... |
| col 2' 10' | ... like a scorpion...... |
| col 2' 17' | ... white oil, its... lightning flashed, Adad thundered |
| col 2' 13' | (If) it is located on the right side of the gall bladder: in the sky.... |
| col 2' 11' | If in the sky a black cloudburst (is set) on the day that it is a Weapon or in. |
| col 2' 2' | If a fog rolls in the sky and.... |
| col 1' 3' | ... and(?) |
| col 1' 2' | ...... |
| col 2' 1' | If a fog... |
| col 2' 12' | May Adad shout out to him, may a lightning flash. |
| col 2' 15' | If a black cloudburst comes out in the west: lightning will be scattered.... |
| col 2' 9' | If the sun becomes visible and does not fall, the north wind....... |
| col 2' 7' | If a paralysis is seen in the sky and.... |
| col 2' 5' | If a fog rolls in the sky.......... |
| col 2' 4' | If a fog rolls in the sky like a fog.... |
| col 2' 14' | If a black cloudburst appears in the sky in the west in Taritu (Month I) |
| col 2' 18' | ... great... |
| col 2' 16' | ... thin clouds crossed the sky, lightning flashed, Adad thundered |
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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