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Sm 0415 (P425403)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Šamaš (EAE 23–35), Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0415 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425403 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Šamaš (EAE 23–35) |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 1' | If the sun stands there: death of the land will be scattered; the king's head will be scattered. : The king will overthrow his head. |
| reverse 14 | ... blew. The day... |
| reverse 11 | ... it rises in the sky and stands... |
| reverse 5 | If the sun rises and....... |
| reverse 4 | If the sun rises and is very bright:... |
| obverse 13' | ... |
| obverse 10' | If the sun rises and the sun sets:... there will be famine of a great army in the land. |
| obverse 3' | If in the land the 20 stars are dark: the land will be destroyed; the troops will be killed(?) |
| reverse 15 | ... (If) on the day of disappearance of the moon.... |
| reverse 3 | If the sun at its rising... his land... will not increase. |
| obverse 11' | If in the land 2... the king is present and the gods of the land will die. |
| reverse 8 | If the sun rises and like a great storm.... |
| reverse 2 | If the sun at its rising....... |
| reverse 12 | ... rises and stands there: the king will become happy. |
| reverse 9 | silver, gold and... |
| obverse 9' | If in the land the sun is eclipsed 3 times... and.... |
| obverse 8' | If the sun rises 2 times in the land:... will prevail. |
| reverse 10 | If the sun rises and is red: the land will become happy.... |
| obverse 5' | If there is a cloud in the land: : there will be frost, variant: there will be frost. |
| obverse 2' | If in the land the sun is eclipsed: there will be a severe raging of the army in the land.... |
| obverse 6' | If there is a mole in the land: there will be famine; there will be famine in the land. |
| obverse 12' | If 2............... |
| reverse 1 | If 2... in its month, rains and floods will come. |
| reverse 6 | If the sun does not... in its land. |
| reverse 13 | ... the supplications(?) |
| reverse 7 | If the sun rises and the lung... the king... the unsubmissive land.... |
| obverse 4' | If there are two stars in the land: the stars stand (there) and there will be famine of the land. |
| obverse 7' | If the sun stands in its mountain: in its midst... the king will kill his enemies in the street. |
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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