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Sm 0990 (P425696)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 0990 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425696 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 10 | ... he says to the rain: |
| obverse 6 | (If) in Nisannu (Month I), on the sixteenth day an eclipse takes place and the son(?) of the king(?), his father(?) seizes and he does not(?)... the people(?) |
| obverse 2 | ... the wording of an enutu-priestess upon an eclipse |
| reverse 21' | ... from their... to their... |
| reverse 22' | If the Moon at its appearance is surrounded by a halo and is dark and dark:.... |
| reverse 8' | If a Yoke stands in it: the king will die and his land will diminish. Ditto. The king of Elam will die. Year:... |
| obverse 16 | ... after(?)... lunar eclipse |
| reverse 9' | ... the... of his star... his name... in the place of a star... |
| reverse 13' | ... and a planet stands inside it: in that year the field will not prosper |
| reverse 6' | If... and the Scorpion stands in its midst: the gods will be afraid. |
| obverse 15 | ... his right horn(?), and the eye(?) which he spoke |
| obverse 14 | ... Mars is Mercury and the wild animals are present |
| obverse 9 | ... Mars stands with it. |
| reverse 7' | ... stands in the halo of the moon... |
| reverse 18' | ... 30 to ama... |
| reverse 2' | ......... stood in the position of the Bristle in the halo of the moon. |
| obverse 13 | (If) for ama-ua(?)... the day of the eclipse takes place and it is set |
| obverse 11 | ... you strew... to death. |
| obverse 17 | ......... |
| reverse 10' | ... Ubru-Ninurta was killed; from the evening with his friends |
| reverse 20' | ... Nergal stands in the halo of the moon |
| obverse 5 | ... the reign of the king will end. |
| obverse 12 | ... may... come out from ama |
| obverse 3 | ... the land will eat the food(?), there will be deaths |
| reverse 3' | If the Shepherd of Anu stands inside it: there will be numerous floods (or): there will be harvests. |
| reverse 16' | ... Anu, the Fish, Anu, Mercury, Adad... |
| reverse 17' | ...... :...... will not rain. |
| reverse 4' | ... : "An(?) head is a harptu-snake for his god" |
| obverse 7 | ... his... will seize him, his son will seize the throne. |
| obverse 8 | (If) an eclipse takes place and its redness.... |
| obverse 1 | If the Moon in Nisannu (I) on the 1st day its right horn reaches the sky: in that year the land will become small. |
| reverse 12' | ... Mercury stood in the position of the Furrow in the halo of the moon |
| reverse 11' | ... its star... Mars |
| reverse 15' | ... there will be famine in the earth, in the earth of Pabilsag... |
| reverse 14' | ..... you stir..... |
| reverse 19' | ... ama-iddin, great one |
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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