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CT 38, pl. 40 Sm 0710+ (P426445)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CT 38, pl. 40 Sm 0710+ |
|---|---|
| ID | P426445 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 10' | If an ewe gives birth to a man: he will die. |
| 8' | If a white ewe is present in a man's house: he will destroy the house. : If a black ewe is present in a man's house: that temple will have a god. |
| 1' | ... of tamarisk |
| 18' | If an anomaly is located on the top of a man's bed: that man will die. |
| 14' | If an anomaly is located on a man's neck: that man will fall. |
| 2' | ... that sign is good. |
| 6' | ... he has seen in a man's house. That house... |
| 13' | If a prostitute strikes a man when he is ill for a man. |
| 17' | If an anomaly comes out on top of a man's bed: that man will die. |
| 19' | a bed |
| 16' | If an anomaly comes close to the foot of a man: he will die. |
| 15' | If he afflicts emeshu-demons and he afflicts a man's body: that man will go with him. |
| 20' | ...... will experience a defeat(?) |
| 3' | ........ that sign is favourable. |
| 12' | (If) a lamassu approaches that man: he will become a lamassu. |
| 5' | If a captivity whose 2 tails are visible in a man's house... |
| 11' | If an anomaly is located on top of a man: he will die. |
| 9' | If an ewe gives birth to a man: that man will become god and protective deity. |
| 21' | .... you seize. |
| 4' | ... is seen...: there will be famine in a man's house. |
| 7' | If an anomaly which has no tail, the wife of a man will give many sons and he will not place bread at his mouth. |
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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