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Sm 0686 (P425540)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0686 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425540 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 15' | If...... he has brothers, he will have brothers. |
| 1' | ...... |
| 16' | If... that house will be destroyed. |
| reverse 12 | If a man is seized by a man's house: that owner will be killed. |
| 8' | If a man's house is covered with reeds: he will make a claim in the man's house. |
| reverse 11 | If a weapon (against) a man's house(?) is scattered, the mistress of the house will die |
| reverse 13 | If a ram is surrounded by a halo of the stars and is located on a throne: that city will become hostile. |
| 4' | If a table for a man's house is broken, the owner of the house will experience a severe illness. |
| reverse 8 | ... he has left, he will fall into a house. |
| reverse 17 | ... after day, that house will become old. |
| reverse 6 | ... that house will experience abundance. |
| reverse 16 | ... has come out. That house will be destroyed |
| reverse 10 | ............... |
| reverse 4 | ...... he speaks, he writes, and |
| reverse 15 | If ditto and an akun-bowl does not exist: the city's right side is surrounded by a fog. |
| 17' | If.... ditto: owner of the house will become poor. |
| reverse 3 | ... you set up... doors. |
| 14' | If... hand of a palace, his land will be destroyed. |
| 5' | If a man's house - owner of the house will die |
| 6' | If a tree gives birth to a man's house: that house will be scattered. |
| reverse 14 | If ditto a luminosity of the stars ditto (and) he is swollen in the ground: the woman will die of the palace. |
| 9' | If a tree... a man's house.... |
| reverse 9 | ........... he conquered that house. |
| 11' | If a man's door is broken into into a house |
| 7' | If a man's house is seized by rams(?), the owner of the house will die and his house will be scattered. |
| reverse 7 | ... a house |
| 3' | ...... the owner of the house... |
| 2' | ... house... |
| reverse 2 | ... that house will seize him |
| 13' | If..., the queen, dies |
| reverse 1 | ... will be established. |
| reverse 5 | ... there will be good for her. |
| reverse 18 | ... the third day, the heir of a man, will die. |
| 12' | If doors are broken all day long: that house will go before him. |
| 10' | If a man's 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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