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CT 40, pl. 45, Sm 1120 (P425757)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 40, pl. 45, Sm 1120 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425757 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | If ditto a date palm: 2 reeds will be scattered... |
| 6' | If ditto the date palm is 3 heads... the gods.... |
| 15' | If a date palm is 2 (times) the base of the base of |
| 10' | If two heads of date palm are located and the enemy will not change: the king will give birth to a god's temple. |
| 7' | If ditto a date palm... the worktroops |
| 8' | If a fire falls on a garden: the city will be destroyed. Nisaba will devastate. |
| 17' | If a date palm in a garden: the man will fall. |
| 2' | If ditto a date palm... |
| 1' | If ditto a date palm(?) |
| 11' | If a date palm with three heads is located on the south side and a date palm and date palm... the son of the palace. |
| 16' | If a date palm with two branches ditto: fate of the land will change. |
| 14' | If date palms are located on the top of 5 heads,... will be good |
| 4' | If ditto the date palm(?) is seen(?) |
| 12' | If a date palm is located on four heads: the lord of the garden will rule the son of the palace; the king will kill his enemies. |
| 18' | If a red date palm is seen in a garden: there will be evil in the land. |
| 13' | If a date palm... 4 heads |
| 3' | If ditto a date palm in its midst... that garden. |
| 9' | If date palms are 2 heads: there will be famine in the land. |
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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