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Sm 0136 (P425258)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0136 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425258 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse? 10 | If an anomaly... is filled with good water:... |
| reverse? 6 | If... is dark like the hand of....... |
| reverse? 8 | If he is ill, he will die and... |
| reverse? 4 | If......... meat....... |
| reverse? 1 | If on top of the 'finger' there is a 'flood'-mark: he will fall... and.. |
| reverse? 11 | If he is ill, the king's reign will be long.... |
| reverse? 9 | If he is ill, he will be well... |
| reverse? 3 | If ditto and there is a mole in the middle of the 'finger': the prince will die. |
| reverse? 5 | If... comes out and....... |
| reverse? 2 | If the 'well-being' rises on top of the 'finger': the'strength' will be as strong as the 'finger'.... |
| reverse? 7 | If... is dark:....... |
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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