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Sm 0776 (P425583)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0776 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425583 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 12' | If a'station' is located on the left of the'station': attack of the enemy. |
| 17' | If a man is seized in the top of a man: fall of your army. |
| 3' | If the top of the'station' and the middle of the'station' is split:... the king will devastate. |
| 5' | If the middle of the'station' and the base of the'station' are split: your 'well-being' will become visible.... |
| 6' | If the top of the'station' is split: a solar eclipse will take place. |
| 11' | If there is a mole on the right side of the'station': fall of my army. |
| 16' | If there is a mole on the top of the'station': defeat of the gods. |
| 10' | If a man is stricken in the base of the'station': a widow will die. |
| 7' | If there are moths in the top of the'station': there will be famine. |
| 13' | If a Perforation is located on the right of a man and on the left of a man: he will die. |
| 15' | If there are two omens on the top of a man's head: fall of famine and blackness. |
| 18' | (If) a man is seized by two (times): attack of Ninurta(?) |
| 1' | If a man's middle is split and he is stricken in his belly:... his house.... |
| 8' | If a man is swollen in the top of a man: there will be death; there will be death. |
| 14' | If there is a mole on the top of the'station': 2 reeds will fall. |
| 9' | If there is a mole in the middle of the'station': there will be 3 or 4 unfavorable omens. |
| 2' | If the foundation of the'station' is smashed and it is smashed up in it:... his house.... |
| 4' | If the top of the'station' and the base of the'station' is split: your 'weapon'-mark... will see.... There will be a enemy and... with the weapon of a prince. |
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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