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AAT pl. 78 (Sm 575) (P426440)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Rikis Gerri, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AAT pl. 78 (Sm 575) |
|---|---|
| ID | P426440 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial > Rikis Gerri |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 5' | If the Bristle reaches the Sun and enters the Sun: the city will be destroyed. |
| 10' | It is the wording of a lifted-hand prayer to the enemy. |
| 11' | ... the musukkannu wood |
| 1' | (If) ditto he does not come out, there will be unfavorable omens. : (If) he will die in the land. |
| 3' | If Venus reaches the Moon and enters the Moon: the king's son will seize his father's son. |
| 4' | If Venus reaches the horn of the moon and emerges: Itar and Sin will make the throne last long. |
| 2' | Ditto; in the morning watch, it came close to the 30th. |
| 8' | If Dilbat reaches ulpa’e and dies: ulpa’e opens and stands there. |
| 7' | If the Pleiades stand in front of the sun: the land will be destroyed. |
| 9' | ...: the land will become stable; alternatively, the flood will come. |
| 12' | ...... |
| 6' | If Venus enters the 20th and emerges: variant: there will be a famine. |
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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