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Sm 2074 (P426256)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 2074 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426256 |
| 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 col 1 3 | ... will die |
| reverse col 3 2' | If Mars approaches the head of the King: in the.... |
| obverse col 2 9 | If the sun does not reach its normal length : UD-BA (means) : its length is not reached. |
| obverse col 1 4 | ... his |
| obverse col 2 7 | a kind of copper |
| obverse col 2 4 | (If) a planet rises (and) a planet rises (= EAE 24(25) I 25) (means): to rise. |
| obverse col 2 1 | If a solar disk stands in front of it: the stars stand in front of Mars. |
| obverse col 2 3 | If a star stands in its land: in the east (means) a planet will come out. |
| reverse col 3 8' | If the stars of the Bristle appear: the Bristle will come. |
| obverse col 2 12 | ......... |
| reverse col 3 4' | If a bird strikes the Furrow: he will die. |
| obverse col 2 2 | (If) a solar disk stands inside it: (variant:) in the eclipse. |
| reverse col 3 3' | If a year stretches from the south to its left: the king will die. |
| obverse col 1 1 | ...... |
| obverse col 1 6 | ...... |
| reverse col 3 5' | If the Kidney Star's stars are yellow-green: in between them(?) |
| obverse col 1 5 | ... a great flood(?) |
| obverse col 2 5 | The king, through the decision of Ea, in the month Abu (V) and the month of Addaru (XII), a new decision. |
| reverse col 3 7' | If the stars of the Crab appear: there will be abundance in the land. |
| reverse col 3 6' | ......... |
| reverse col 3 1' | If Mars stands at the left: the king... |
| reverse col 3 9' | If ditto a later one ditto and the Euphrates go |
| obverse col 2 10 | If... a solar disk is seen in front and in the middle of the middle surface of the 'finger.' |
| obverse col 1 2 | ... a man |
| obverse col 1 7 | ... threshing floor |
| obverse col 2 8 | If he is ill in the land: he will not die. |
| obverse col 2 6 | (If) he sees a cloud: the sky will be full of famine. |
| obverse col 2 11 | (No translation possible) |
| reverse col 3 10' | If ditto a later one ditto and he recovers. |
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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