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Rm 2, 281 (P425035)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Rm 2, 281 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425035 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 8' | If Mars in the west in Aquarius: Venus. |
| 7' | If Mars comes close to the head of the King: in the presence of the king.... |
| 1' | ... overwhelmed meha(?) |
| 2' | ... the... of Mars... |
| 10' | If Mars enters the Lion and stands there: famine. |
| 11' | If Mars enters the Lion and emerges: attack of the king of Akkad and.... |
| 12' | If Mars and the Lion are in opposition: the king will send messengers to the king. |
| 3' | If Mars becomes visible: there will be famine in the land. |
| 9' | (If) he is ill in Akkad and he is surrounded by a halo of horses: |
| 5' | If Mars comes close to the front of the King: there will be famine on the right side of the king. |
| 6' | If Mars comes close to the left of the King's face:.... |
| 4' | (If) he is surrounded by a halo, that land will be destroyed in its midst and.... |
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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