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CT 30, pl. 50, Sm 0823 (P425606)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 30, pl. 50, Sm 0823 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425606 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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 4' | ... the house(?), the cleansing of your army, his field(?) |
| obverse 13' | ... the gall bladder is swollen on the right and he seized the extispicy. He shall return it to his father's house. |
| obverse 14' | ... the house of the prostitutes, the intercession of the army of the king, he will reach the highest rank. |
| obverse 6' | ... the top of the gall bladder he received and the weapon(s) are smashed. The king of the sons of his palace will kill him |
| obverse 17' | ... of the gall bladder, the horn of the prince's temples, his feet. |
| obverse 7' | ... of the barley to the left of the scribal art the son of the king the word of his father to evil come out. On a day that the prince... |
| obverse 18' | ... the niru-house is covered in a niru-house and is placed on the niru-house: the prince will make the barley of his land disappear and he will be killed.... |
| obverse 19' | ... the gall bladder has swollen. The king enters the wall and emerges. |
| obverse 8' | .......... and he continually strews the foundation of my army that cannot be changed? |
| obverse 12' | ...... the gall bladder is surrounded by a halo, and the land will take a prince's land. |
| obverse 9' | ... the gall bladder is surrounded by a goat: the prince will take his penalty in the assembly. |
| obverse 3' | ... is destroyed and...... |
| obverse 16' | ... he seized the barley of the goat; the prince... his land. |
| obverse 2' | ... destroyed... |
| obverse 15' | ...... is located and its head is located on the left of the 'finger.' |
| obverse 10' | ... is located on the left side of the 'finger' of the 'house' and its head is located on the left side of the 'finger.' |
| obverse 11' | ...... The gall bladder is surrounded by a halo from the right of the Finger; the prince will take his enemy's land. |
| obverse 5' | ... the house is destroyed and a weapon is visible |
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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