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ACh Suppl. Adad 61 (P424805)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ACh Suppl. Adad 61 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424805 |
| 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 7' | If ditto a man's hair... |
| obverse 2' | ......... |
| reverse 3 | If ditto (and) a rainbow flare up in their midst: the gods will have mercy on the land. |
| obverse 11' | If ditto (a man, when) he sees the day, he sees the day.... |
| reverse 10 | If ditto (and) on the day that the erptu of heaven stands in the sky: rain will not diminish. |
| obverse 1' | ........ |
| reverse 5 | If ditto a rainbow emerges in the sky: rain will not diminish. |
| reverse 14 | There will be frost in Akkad. There will be frost in Subartu. |
| obverse 12' | If ditto.......... |
| obverse 21' | If a rainbow emerges in the sky:.... |
| reverse 16 | There will be frost in the land of Elam and rain in the land of the west. |
| reverse 12 | If ditto a rainbow appears in the middle of the sky: the people will die. |
| obverse 5' | If a woman is surrounded by a yellow-green...: her illness will be good and black.... |
| obverse 3' | ... white(?) |
| reverse 17 | ... in the sky...... |
| obverse 9' | If ditto (he sees) a crown of radiance: Adad will make his rains (and) Ea will bring his men to the land. |
| reverse 13 | If ditto a rainbow comes close to the north: in that month there will be famine in Akkad and Subartu. |
| obverse 8' | If ditto (it is red) and black: the day....... |
| obverse 13' | If ditto a solar disk comes close to the front of the sun: a cloudburst will die. : If ditto in the sky.... |
| reverse 11 | If ditto (and) on the day that the eclipse of heaven takes place, a rainbow rises to the east: rain will not diminish. |
| reverse 1 | If ditto a rainbow emerges in the sky |
| obverse 10' | If ditto (it is said) in the mouth of ama ditto (it is said) in the mouth of Enlil to the land: attack of locusts for. |
| obverse 18' | If ditto... from the horizon to the horizon.... |
| obverse 19' | If ditto (a man, when walking) from the east to the west... and in his heart |
| reverse 9 | If... and ditto: 2 (times) stand in the midst of ama: there will be famine. |
| obverse 4' | If ditto, its yellow-green....... |
| obverse 14' | If ditto in front of the moon... Adad....... |
| reverse 4 | If ditto (a rainbow) rises in the east and rains. |
| obverse 16' | If ditto a city is surrounded by a...: that city will not prosper. |
| obverse 15' | If a woman... over a city.... |
| obverse 6' | If ditto, all of her is black:.... |
| obverse 17' | If ditto... in the sky:.... |
| reverse 15 | If a rainbow comes out from the west to the west: in that month there will be famine in the land of Elam and the land of Amurru. |
| reverse 6 | If ditto a rainbow appears and their snakes are very yellow: Nergal will devour in the land. |
| obverse 20' | If a rainbow stands in the sky:.... |
| reverse 7 | If ditto a rainbow appears and their snakes are very red: the gods will have mercy on the land. |
| reverse 2 | If ditto (and) a rainbow flares up at their appearance very red: that barley will be piled up. |
| reverse 8 | ... and ditto. The 1st, a father, in the middle of the day?, stood there; rain. |
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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