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BPO 3, 278, Rm 2, 565 (P425183)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BPO 3, 278, Rm 2, 565 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425183 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 3' | If the Pleiades come close to the Bristle and stand there: the king.... |
| 7' | If the Field... and the Great Twins stand to.... |
| 8' | If the Kidney Star enters the Scorpion: there will be frost in the land. |
| 6' | If the Pleiades stand between Ninurta and.... |
| 10' | If the Field becomes visible in the middle of the Field: there will be floods in the sky. |
| 2' | ......... : enemy... |
| 1' | ... inside the star |
| 5' | If the Bristle stands to the Enmearra star: defeat of Akkad. |
| 4' | If the Pleiades stand in front of the Stag: the people of the land will become satisfied. |
| 11' | The harvest of the land of Amurru is favourable. There will be nadutu-disease. |
| 9' | If the Kidney Star returns, its prince will return his name.... |
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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