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Sm 1987 (P426210)
Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1987 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426210 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| 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 8' | ...... |
| obverse 6' | He should eat ox, ox, or pig meat, and he will not succeed. |
| edge 15' | ... is a kukkusu of the wall, and he is a liar. |
| reverse 1' | If a man is swollen in his garment: he will become ill and he will become ill for the upper and lower lands. |
| reverse 10' | If....... |
| obverse 2' | If he eats a snake... and he is ill. |
| reverse 9' | If he is ill for... |
| obverse 8 | If he is ill, he will keep watch. |
| obverse 7 | ...... like a fog, |
| obverse 10 | If a man... on the day... to the god... |
| obverse 13' | If there is a mole on the..., that man will die. |
| reverse 4' | If he is stricken in the middle of a white thigh: the mistress of the house will die and will not see it. |
| obverse 1 | If a man is seized by leprosy: he will not achieve.... |
| reverse 2' | If there is a mole in the middle of the 'finger': he will not return to his rear. |
| obverse 3' | If a eagle or a pigeon eats a robber and is pure |
| obverse 8' | If a dream occurred with a man's head: he will not succeed. |
| obverse 4 | If a man is ill: he will die and his throne will become poor. |
| obverse 9' | If a man approaches his dream and does not see a man: that man will not acquire a penalty. |
| obverse 2 | (If) he is ill in a star ditto: he will die. |
| obverse 11' | If a man... the feet and feet of a man... |
| obverse 12' | If a man is not a man, his feet have set towards the earth, his feet are to the earth, and that man will be killed. |
| obverse 5 | If its horn ditto:.... |
| obverse 3 | You libate oil in the lap of ditto.... |
| reverse 7' | If a man is seized on the day of the month: a fire will fall. |
| reverse 6' | Like a..., it is written on the breast of a man. |
| reverse 5' | If a...-garment falls in its garment and it is covered in a broken garment: the face of the man will become old. |
| reverse 3' | You crush... in the middle? of a night. |
| obverse 13 | If a dog stands in his left thigh |
| obverse 1' | If he is surrounded by water: he will recover. |
| obverse 14' | ... that man will die and that man will be seized. |
| edge 16' | .................... |
| obverse 12 | If a bird... a sign from the right.... |
| obverse 10' | If a dog......... his god....... |
| obverse 9 | .... good.... |
| obverse 4' | If he is seized by a pig in the evening, he will recover from his illness. |
| obverse 11 | 'You are to smite it, you recite the incantation 'It is good.' |
| obverse 5' | (If) he is a pig: he will die. |
| obverse 7' | If he eats a fig-tree and he does not go out |
| obverse 6 | If a sheep's head ditto: she will die. |
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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