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BPO 3, 275, DT 259 (P424550)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BPO 3, 275, DT 259 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424550 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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 3' | ... female kids |
| reverse 5' | If Venus.... |
| reverse 2' | The'station'.... |
| obverse 6' | ...... |
| reverse 1' | If Venus.... |
| obverse 5' | ......... |
| reverse 4' | If Venus... |
| reverse 3' | If Venus.... |
| obverse 8' | ... he will recover. |
| obverse 9' | ... and |
| obverse 2' | "If there is an eclipse of the moon" = Shumma alu 25 unknown means "there will be an eclipse." |
| obverse 1' | If Venus becomes visible in the morning: the stars will die. |
| obverse 7' | ... not distant(?) |
| obverse 4' | they are planets. |
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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