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DT 223 (P424536)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | DT 223 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424536 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 1 | ... 3 uarra, minas of guard, day and night. |
| obverse 9 | ... 3 red: the guard, day and night. 2 red: the guard is black. |
| reverse 1' | ... 3(?)... |
| reverse 2' | Sin, the niplu of the day, the inscription of Babylon. |
| obverse 3 | ... 3: a period of 3 days. The day and the night are 2: the evening watch is black. |
| obverse 7 | ... 3 cubits, the middle watch is 2 minas. The middle watch is black |
| obverse 6 | ... a dog will give birth to a black dog. The day will be long. |
| obverse 5 | ... 4 minas: the guard, day and night; |
| obverse 8 | ... 3 angû-flour, the day and night are 2 angû-flour, the day and night are black. |
| obverse 2 | ... 3 red: the guard, day and night. 2 red: the guard. |
| obverse 4 | ... 3 cubits, the middle watch: day and night; |
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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