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Sm 1044 (P425721)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1044 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425721 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| 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' | If Marduk's star is very yellow: there will be famine in the land. |
| obverse 13' | If the Pleiades become visible in the beginning of the year with the Moon and the Moon.... |
| obverse 3' | If Marduk's star is very red: he will become happy. |
| obverse 12' | If the Marduk-star becomes visible in the beginning of the year. That year the furrows will be overcast. |
| obverse 5' | If Marduk's Year is very dark: deaths. |
| obverse 10' | If Marduk is a mehu-star, ditto Nergal (is) his name, Ea his enemies, Adad (is) his rains. |
| obverse 11' | ... there will be truth in the land; the son will speak the truth with his father... |
| obverse 9' | If the Bristle afflicts the Pleiades: the land will eat food. The gods.... |
| obverse 2' | If the Well-being emerges at its rising(?): Elam will be destroyed and the land. |
| obverse 15' | If Marduk is red: he will... wife(?) : if Marduk approaches the Field |
| obverse 6' | If Marduk's horn is yellow: an eclipse... |
| obverse 8' | For 2 shekels of silver is the price of the enemy's oil; he will die and the land will be destroyed. Year 4... |
| obverse 1' | If the Lion, when it emerges, a man(?)... in front of it |
| obverse 14' | If the Pleiades of Marduk become visible and in... |
| obverse 7' | If the Well-being of Marduk reaches the eponymy of the land: in the midst of the gods 50, Ea and... |
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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