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Rm 0509 (P424812)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 0509 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424812 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 1' | The middle of the 'finger' of the lung is 'loose.' The lower part is elevated.... |
| 16' | They go. The 13th, the name of the king of the land will go to my land. |
| reverse 7' | If above....... |
| 9' | The'strength' is thick. The lower part is elevated.... |
| reverse 6' | If a... river is seen on the front of the palace: lower side.... |
| 10' | The upper part is elevated.... |
| 4' | The upper part is elevated.... |
| 6' | The upper part is elevated.... |
| 3' | At the entrance to the gate, there is a...... |
| 5' | The right of the gate is surrounded by a halo. The lower part is elevated.... |
| 14' | They go. The 13th, the king's son will go to the land. |
| 15' | The upper part is elevated. The enemy's attack is Mercury. The gods are on my army. |
| 7' | The'strength' is thick. The lower part... |
| 12' | The upper part is elevated.... |
| reverse 1' | If there is an eclipse.... |
| 13' | The'strength' is present on the right side of the halo. The lower part is elevated. The enemy's attack. |
| 8' | The upper part is elevated.... |
| 17' | If.......... |
| reverse 5' | If the upper part is elevated.... |
| reverse 8' | If the Well-being is long and its left is short:.... |
| reverse 2' | ... before... |
| reverse 4' | If...... the right side of the 'finger' is narrow.... |
| 2' | If the upper part... |
| reverse 9' | Month VII, 1st (of which followed the 30th of the preceding month). |
| reverse 10' | ... Assurbanipal |
| reverse 3' | If there is an eclipse.... |
| 11' | If the right surface of the moon is seen with the moon: the river will prosper. The lower part is elevated.... |
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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