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Sm.1925 (P426178)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Babylonian, Nineveh · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Sm.1925 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426178 |
| Museum no. | Sm.1925 |
| Collection | Kuyunjik |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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 9 | ... of the god,... |
| reverse 11 | ... the Bull is very red: Adad will devastate his rains. |
| obverse 6' | .........: he will recover. |
| reverse 7 | ... Ninmah, Ninursaga, did not draw a horn. |
| obverse 18' | If the Furrow, Ea, the beloved of his brothers |
| reverse 20 | ... is good |
| reverse 15 | ... at her side, Jupiter for the fate |
| obverse 8' | (If) the Pleiades come close to the surface of the sky: Mercury will rise in the Furrow and rain. |
| reverse 18 | ... Sîn will approach. |
| reverse 19 | ... great |
| obverse 7' | If the Bow and ala are large: |
| reverse 1 | ... Nisaba,... of life, does not change. |
| obverse 22' | ... : great wife of Ningal |
| reverse 5 | ... ulpa’e, the great lord |
| reverse 17 | Anu, lord of the earth : Scorpius |
| obverse 23' | ... in Subartu. Who will not seize it? |
| reverse 4 | ... Gula, lady of life, |
| obverse 10' | If the Eribu Constellation, Mami, son of Apsu |
| reverse 2 | ... Ab'u, lady of the wine |
| obverse 25' | ... Haya,... of juniper, juniper, eu-plant, Mercury for rain and flood |
| obverse 9' | If the Arrow, Erra, the hero of the gods, and the Arrow, stand inside the Scorpion. |
| obverse 19' | ... there will be peace and peace in the land. |
| obverse 4' | ... the great hero(?) did not rise |
| reverse 14 | ... the kings of the lands will be reconciled. Venus is eclipsed |
| reverse 10 | ... Uruk in the place of the Stars is dark: decision for Uruk and Kulaba. |
| reverse 8 | ....... vizier of the moon. In the month of the watch (and) Jupiter is seen. |
| obverse 21' | (If) the Bristle rises and is surrounded by a fog: a flood will come. |
| obverse 24' | ... to Venus |
| obverse 3' | ... and hunger |
| obverse 15' | If the Yoke (is) Ninmah (and) Ninnippur, whose great aura is good |
| reverse 6 | ... there will be famine. |
| obverse 13' | If a star enters ama: Kabta is the lord of wisdom. Venus is in ama: attack of the enemy. |
| reverse 24 | ...-is |
| reverse 12 | ... the Old Man |
| obverse 12' | If a star is surrounded by ama: Venus and Venus will prosper in the east. |
| obverse 2' | ... the great gods. |
| obverse 16' | Mercury approaches Venus in the path of Enlil and is good. |
| obverse 17' | If the Pleiades - Dilimbabbar does not exist: the Pleiades will be cold. |
| reverse 16 | Papsukkal(?) vizier of Anu |
| reverse 23 | ... a planet approaches and |
| obverse 14' | If the Scorpion: Ninurta, the great hero, because of Lisi. |
| obverse 11' | (If) the Scorpion, as much as pertains to the moon, at its appearance approaches, its sign to the attack of locusts. |
| reverse 13 | ... great... Itar |
| obverse 5' | ... Adad, the great... of heaven and earth |
| reverse 3 | ... [...]... [...] |
| reverse 22 | ... Jupiter approaches and finishes the reign. |
| reverse 21 | ... Ninazu |
| obverse 20' | ... Ea, Ningirsu or Mercury or Venus a new break |
Sources & licences
- 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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