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Sm 1556 (P425980)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1556 |
|---|---|
| ID | P425980 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 2' | ... adu,..., |
| obverse 5' | ... as much as the star was bright. |
| obverse 7' | ... there will be in the land. |
| reverse 6' | ... without ceasing, the throne passed. |
| reverse 7' | ... the king will speak life. |
| obverse 3' | ... stands in the morning watch and the evil of the land will take place. |
| reverse 10' | ....... |
| obverse 4' | (If) there is a flood in the enemy's land: that land will experience severe famine. |
| reverse 4' | ... the ground(?) of the troops to the land |
| obverse 9' | ... in the middle watch, or in the middle watch, all of it will be covered. |
| obverse 10' | (If) he does not see a man... he will be seized(?), whatever he does not see |
| reverse 14' | ... will conquer the land. |
| reverse 12' | ... will die |
| reverse 3' | ... my army(?) |
| obverse 8' | ... emerges(?) |
| obverse 6' | ... his servants did not pass by |
| obverse 11' | ... is located... his city and he will kill the king. |
| reverse 11' | ... will die |
| reverse 8' | ...... will conquer |
| obverse 2' | ... may he give... as a gift. |
| reverse 5' | ... he brought down |
| reverse 9' | ... the king of the Westland |
| obverse 12' | ... eat |
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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