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Sm 1515 (P425955)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Orientation tablets/Liver models, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1515 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425955 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy > Orientation tablets/Liver models |
| 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 col 4 7 | Anum, whose name you do not know, |
| obverse col 4 13 | 'and the lung is surrounded by a weapon and stands there.' |
| obverse col 4 10 | he said: "Because of death |
| obverse col 1 1' | ... the wide ground(?) |
| obverse col 4 5 | Whoever does not know him, will say: |
| obverse col 4 6 | 3 (?) jugs of jugs of the place where 1 jug |
| obverse col 1 2' | ... wide..., the right side, the horn to the side of the steppe |
| obverse col 1 3' | ... the horn of the middle... |
| obverse col 4 9 | and he stands there. The enemy will kill him from the Weapon and he will die. |
| obverse col 4 12 | they shall give, they shall say: |
| obverse col 4 2 | ...... before...... |
| obverse col 1 4' | ... in the middle of the 'finger'... |
| obverse col 4 16 | and his right and left are split. |
| obverse col 4 11 | Whoever in the future, at any time, lodges a complaint |
| obverse col 4 17 | (If) he sees a man: after he sees a man: either 1 or 2 weapons |
| obverse col 4 1 | ... of the enemy, who stands at the left side... |
| obverse col 4 14 | Its name stands from the share as much as there is. |
| obverse col 4 4 | If the'station' of the 'path' says, because of those years. |
| obverse col 4 15 | (If) it is located on the top of the 'finger': after the 'finger' there is a 'weapon'-mark and a 'weapon'-mark. |
| obverse col 4 8 | Because from the weapons, as much as there is |
| obverse col 4 3 | ...... her name... |
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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