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Sm 0738 (P425564)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Enūma Anu Enlil > Sîn (EAE 1–22); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0738 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425564 |
| 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 > Sîn (EAE 1–22); CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 8' | If the moon and sun are in opposition, and Adad thunders in their midst. |
| 13' | ... in the evening, in Kislev (IX), on the fourteenth day, a solar eclipse takes place and |
| 10' | and the Euphrates (canal) are in place. On the fourteenth day one god is seen with the other and Adad afflicts him. |
| 2' | (If) on the 14th day it is not seen with the sun: ditto. |
| 12' | ... Saturn. On the 14th day it stands with the Moon. |
| 4' | On the 14th day one god is not seen with the other. |
| 6' | If the Moon at its left: slow harvest of the land. |
| 9' | (and) all day long he made (them) tremble. He placed (them) in the all lands. |
| 3' | If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king will be angry with his land and his people. |
| 11' | If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. |
| 14' | ... Saturn stands with the moon. |
| 1' | If the moon does not wait for the sun but sets: raging of lions and wolves. |
| 7' | If the moon stands at its left: business will diminish. The 15th day. |
| 5' | If the Moon is seen on its left: evil will be present. |
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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