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Rm 2, 144 (P424960)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 2, 144 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424960 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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 4' | If the top of the 'finger' of the lung is split: the'strength' is absent. |
| obverse 7' | ... the strong watercourse or the forest |
| reverse 12' | ... like a vegetable garden, kings will be exalted. |
| reverse 2' | ..... who enters and disappears, swollen opening, not open, |
| reverse 13' | The king of the great land will become happy. |
| obverse 13' | ........... |
| reverse 16' | ......: the flood will afflict me. |
| reverse 3' | ... they are...: the house will not prosper. |
| obverse 4' | ... the coils of the colon are unfavorable. |
| obverse 16' | If the coils of the colon are 10 in number: there will be peace. |
| reverse 11' | The muttagigu-demon, the sagiu-demon, the sagiu-demon |
| obverse 14' | ... [...]... [...] |
| obverse 2' | ... and he will die. |
| obverse 8' | ...... as he said |
| obverse 5' | ...... and he will become poor. |
| reverse 9' | If a ewe is located in the palace: the Weapon will attack and the land will become frightened. |
| obverse 10' | If the coils of the colon are 15 in number: my army will not stand in front of the army. |
| reverse 5' | If there is a mole on the left side of the gall bladder, which is said, he will die. |
| reverse 1' | ... troops(?) |
| reverse 6' | ................. |
| reverse 7' | ... the ewes, the father of his son, will die. |
| obverse 15' | ... I strewn... my hand. |
| obverse 12' | ............. |
| reverse 14' | ... his head(s), the son of the king, seized his father’s throne |
| obverse 3' | ...... will fall. |
| reverse 17' | ... the shitnunu-disease of the vizier, his lord. |
| obverse 6' | ...... who said,...,..,..,..,..,..,..,..,..,.., |
| reverse 10' | ...: he will die; his sin will fall on the throne. |
| reverse 15' | ... the head of the 'finger' is swollen. |
| obverse 9' | ... that is unceasing, your troops will be killed. |
| reverse 8' | ....................................... |
| obverse 11' | If the coils of the colon of the right are swollen: there will be famine. |
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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