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Sm 1929 (P426181)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1929 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426181 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 2' | If an eclipse takes place and Venus and Jupiter become visible |
| reverse 2' | ...... |
| reverse 1' | ... enemy troops... |
| obverse 6' | If in Ululu (Month VI), on day 20, there will be an eclipse. |
| reverse 4' | ... attack(?) against the land |
| obverse 9' | If on the 3rd day: there will be frost in the land. |
| obverse 3' | If an eclipse takes place on a day that is not suitable for an eclipse and it is surrounded by a rainbow |
| obverse 7' | If on the 14th day Adad frightens: Adad roars. |
| reverse 3' | ... that he will become a widow. |
| obverse 10' | If on the 14th day it is seen: the price of.... |
| obverse 16' | If on the 28th day... |
| obverse 8' | If on the 11th day: there will be frost in the land. |
| obverse 5' | If in Abu (Month V) the sun becomes eclipsed: the king will make his land visible and.... |
| reverse 7' | ... her |
| obverse 15' | If on the 21st day: there will be famine of the sea. |
| reverse 5' | ...... |
| obverse 12' | If on the 16th day: the king of Guti will....... |
| obverse 4' | If from the 1st day until the 30th day there is a mole on the land... |
| obverse 14' | If on the 20th day the king of the Westland in.... |
| obverse 13' | If the moon reaches the king: his life will be with the god; his land will be destroyed. :... |
| obverse 11' | The 15th day: the king... |
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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