Unread Atlas
Sm 0664 (P425531)
ARCHIVAL > Letter > Extispicy Query, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | Sm 0664 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425531 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | ARCHIVAL > Letter > Extispicy Query |
| 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 | ama, great lord, give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you! |
| obverse 5 | ... who is killed, who is killed, |
| obverse 3 | a-Nabû-û... |
| reverse 4' | May (this query) go to your great divinity, O ama, great lord, and may an oracle be given as an answer. |
| obverse 4 | ... to the district... |
| reverse 1' | ... nanny goat |
| reverse 6' | ... the utterance... |
| reverse 3' | ... the coils of the colon are 16 in number. |
| reverse 5' | ......... |
| obverse 6 | ...... |
| obverse 2 | ... in the month of Nnru |
| reverse 2' | ... her base... |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.