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CT 41, pl. 01, Sm 1244 (P425826)
CANONICAL; CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 41, pl. 01, Sm 1244 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425826 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL; CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| 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 | If the bird's necks are swollen and... |
| obverse 6 | That city is surrounded by a mountain and its enemy |
| obverse 2 | If the fowlers are very numerous, and their extispicies are constantly constantly interrupted, and in the midst of... |
| reverse 2' | a-BAL-BAL-BAL-Aur |
| reverse 3' | The one who the tablet... |
| obverse 7 | If birds lie down on a city and are constantly frightened: a lion will be scattered in a man's house. |
| obverse 3 | ... to the city |
| obverse 9 | If a bird... ditto |
| obverse 1 | If there are many birds, that city will be destroyed by kings. |
| obverse 8 | If a bird... ditto and he... in front of the troops |
| obverse 4 | If a bird's tail reaches the city and... on the city.... |
| obverse 5 | If a bird's neck is constantly swollen and swollen on the city: |
| reverse 1' | The... of the temple |
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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