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DT 318 (P424578)
CANONICAL > Catalogues; CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Adad (EAE 36–49), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | DT 318 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424578 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Catalogues; CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Adad (EAE 36–49) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 2' | Year 13, Sargon (II), king of Assyria. |
| obverse 16' | That city...... |
| obverse 4' | ... does not take... : he will succeed. Month of the 3rd, rains will not be good... |
| obverse 8' | (If) he is surrounded by a mountain, and the west wind blew, and he will not become happy |
| obverse 7' | ... shekels red wool, and the north wind... |
| obverse 17' | If a day is seen in the street of the city.... |
| obverse 20' | ...... |
| reverse 1' | Kalu |
| obverse 9' | there will be... in the Westland. Ditto in the king's heart. |
| obverse 11' | If a bird is swollen: in that month ditto; in that year ditto; in that day, the king of Akkad. |
| obverse 19' | If he is ill:.... |
| obverse 14' | If in that month fish(s) are seen: the king of the land.... |
| reverse 3' | and the first year of the king of Babylon. |
| obverse 6' | (If) a man's head is swollen: property... |
| obverse 3' | ... the price of... |
| obverse 13' | If in that month locusts are killed ditto: the king of the land will die. In the month... |
| obverse 15' | If a man enters the open country....... |
| obverse 12' | If in that month locusts... the king of the land.... |
| obverse 2' | ... ZI'a... |
| obverse 18' | ...... the campaign... |
| obverse 5' | ... they cut off... ditto; they bowed down to the king. Ditto: that land... |
| obverse 10' | If a eagle gives birth to a bird: the land will kill her. Ditto: the harvest of the land will.... |
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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