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CT 41, pl. 02, Sm 0230 (P425309)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 41, pl. 02, Sm 0230 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425309 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 4 5 | there will be deaths. |
| reverse col 4 3 | : attack of enemy : attack of locusts. |
| reverse col 4 9 | to the gate... |
| reverse col 4 1 | If a black eagle becomes visible in the city |
| reverse col 4 7 | eclipse for the king and the prince. |
| reverse col 4 8 | If ditto a bird... from the gate and a... bird |
| obverse col 1 5' | ......... |
| obverse col 1 4' | If ditto, white....... |
| obverse col 1 1' | If a white pigeon appears in the city |
| reverse col 4 6 | If ditto a black spot is seen in the centre of the palace. |
| obverse col 1 6' | If ditto of... is seen in a man's house. |
| reverse col 4 10 | ... |
| obverse col 1 2' | the land : the lord of the city, his king, is small. |
| obverse col 1 3' | If ditto, white ones are present in the temple... of the temple: that temple will be abandoned. |
| reverse col 4 2 | In that month, an eclipse will occur. |
| reverse col 4 4 | There will be famine in the land. |
| obverse col 1 7' | : to a man's house... that house will be scattered. |
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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