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AAT pl. 68 (P424624)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AAT pl. 68 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424624 |
| 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 13' | If Adad reaches the 23rd, there will be frost in the land |
| reverse 6' | (If) Gilgamesh is located in the land and a man will die. |
| obverse 19' | If Adad... 29 fingers |
| reverse 11' | (If) he is ill, he is ill, he is ill and he destroys the trees. |
| reverse 7' | If Adad thunders at an inappropriate time: rains will be released. |
| obverse 3' | If Adad... 13 fingers |
| obverse 2' | If Adad... 12 fingers |
| reverse 3' | Adad of the lands... the king |
| reverse 5' | If Adad thunders and a rainbow reaches its snake: fire will be seen. |
| obverse 17' | If Adad(?) 27 is the side of Nergal(?) |
| reverse 13' | [Tablet 55,] day: “Anu, Enlil |
| obverse 12' | If Adad reaches the 22nd day: there will be rain and barley in the field. |
| reverse 9' | If Adad thunders at an inappropriate time: the harvest |
| reverse 2' | If Adad thunders and a rainbow rages towards each other |
| obverse 5' | If Adad... on the right horn |
| obverse 11' | If Adad is 21 in number: attack of the troops. |
| obverse 4' | If Adad... 14 fingers |
| obverse 15' | If Adad (means) 25: dates and sesame will not be gathered. |
| obverse 9' | If Adad carries 19 fingers (on him): the robbery will come and the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| obverse 16' | If Adad... 26 fingers in the garden(?) |
| reverse 4' | If Adad thunders and a rainbow stretches (away) of its snake: there will be severe famine in the land. |
| obverse 7' | If Adad - 17 is the horn of a scorpion - Ea will be present. |
| obverse 6' | If Adad eats 16 fingers, Nergal and Meslamtaea will devour the land. |
| obverse 10' | If Adad - 20 fingers - is surrounded by a fog in the land: |
| reverse 12' | If Adad [stands] in the middle of the 'finger' of the 'finger' and their seven stars come close to the ground. |
| obverse 1' | If Adad... 11 fingers |
| reverse 8' | If Adad does not obey him, there will be famine, there will be famine. |
| obverse 8' | If Adad - 18 is the side of the palace of the prince. |
| obverse 14' | If Adad... 24 horns: in the land(?) |
| reverse 10' | If Adad roars in a cloud of males : he will die. |
| obverse 18' | If Adad... 28 fingers |
| reverse 1' | ...... |
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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