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Rm 2, 179 (P424979)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 2, 179 |
|---|---|
| ID | P424979 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 11 | The middle of the 'finger'... |
| 3 | You multiply 3 times 3 times 3... and 3 times 3/6... |
| 8 | 6;40 times 30... |
| 12 | If the base of the 'finger' of the lung... |
| 4 | 50th day of the month XII, 1st year, eponym year of... |
| 7 | Month of the first month, eponym year of... |
| 9 | ... many years... |
| 1 | The 9th, la'ab, my companion... |
| 6 | ... 40... |
| 5 | [Witness:] 9; 6 40; you see 6 40. Ditto. |
| 2 | in the middle surface of the 'finger' of the right hand, it passed 3 times... |
| 10 | If the top of the 'finger'... to the right.... |
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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