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Sm 0558 (P425470)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0558 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425470 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial |
| 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 6 | The owner of that house will be repaid. |
| obverse 10 | ... Irra(?) is the wife(?) of a man |
| reverse 1' | ... the house(?) |
| obverse 12 | is sick and he will recover. |
| obverse 9 | If a pigeon enters a man's house: the wife of a man will die. |
| obverse 7 | If a pigeon eats a bird in a man's house and it eats a bird |
| reverse 3' | ... in its midst... in the city |
| obverse 11 | If a pigeon enters a man's house and does not take anything |
| obverse 1 | If a white eagle is seen in a city: that city will be destroyed. |
| obverse 2 | If a ewe gives birth to a lion in a city: that city will be destroyed. |
| obverse 5 | If a snake (gloss: break) in the middle of a man's house: a bird will take it. |
| obverse 13 | If a lion approaches a man's house and gives birth to a lion |
| obverse 3 | If a pigeon is located on the threshing floor of a man's house: a bird will take it. |
| obverse 15 | ... will be scattered. |
| obverse 16 | ...... |
| obverse 4 | ... there will be famine in that house. |
| reverse 2' | ...,...,..,...,...,...,...,...,...,...,. |
| obverse 8 | (If) he dies in that house and he is ill: he will recover. |
| obverse 14 | ... that house |
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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