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CT 30, pl. 12-13, Rm 0480 (P424793)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 30, pl. 12-13, Rm 0480 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424793 |
| 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 8' | If the Gall Bladder is like the creation of a day: the kings will renew it and.... |
| obverse 16' | If the gall bladder is white:....... |
| reverse 7 | If there is a diu-disease in the 'finger' like... |
| obverse 11' | In the course of his name, speak! I am a chariot, I am a lion. |
| reverse 14 | If ditto... on the left.... |
| reverse 2 | The right side of the 'finger' is split. The 'finger'.... |
| obverse 3' | The gall bladder is split from the right to the left and is split.... |
| reverse 3 | If the gall bladder is like a stone and it has a gall bladder: he will die. |
| obverse 2' | If on top of the gall bladder.... |
| reverse 8 | If in the left of the gall bladder a gall bladder... towards its front.... |
| reverse 5 | ... will not come out. |
| obverse 12' | If the gall bladder is like an imgurru-plant and its water is black: Adad will devastate. |
| obverse 4' | The gall bladder is split from the right to the left.... |
| reverse 11 | If the left of the gall bladder is split and faces the front.... |
| obverse 15' | (If) he does not have a copy of the tablet: he will become happy. |
| obverse 1' | If he sees a gall bladder(?), he will widen his understanding |
| obverse 7' | If the gall bladder is like a ibirru-plant: the prince... in his own... |
| obverse 5' | If the gall bladder is like the head of a... chariot: the prince will have no rival(?) |
| reverse 9 | If the left side of the gall bladder is split in front of it.... |
| obverse 6' | If the gall bladder is like the head of a fish: the prince will not acquire a rival. |
| obverse 14' | If the gall bladder is like a pig's horn:... will thrive. Gilgame, the mighty king. |
| reverse 1 | ... a firm positive answer... in the tongue,..., |
| reverse 6 | If on the moon it is good: the barley....... |
| reverse 4 | 'to her daughter, the upper and lower, he was guarded and did not... before him.' |
| obverse 13' | The imgurru-tree(?), the imgurru-tree(?), the imgurru-tree(?), the urindu-tree, like the omen of the tablet, |
| reverse 12 | If ditto a gall bladder is located on the left of the gall bladder: to.... |
| reverse 10 | If the left side of the gall bladder is split:....... |
| obverse 9' | If the gall bladder is like a liar: the harvest of the land will not prosper.... |
| reverse 13 | If the left of the gall bladder is split and....... |
| obverse 10' | If the gall bladder is like a lullaby and its tongue emerges: the enemy's land will be scattered in the steppe. |
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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