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Sm 1262 + Sm 1271 (P426468)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Sm 1262 + Sm 1271 |
|---|---|
| ID | P426468 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 7' | (If) ditto the lions become visible and multiply the times. |
| 2' | (Ditto:) the king's land will conquer him. |
| 10' | If a planet stands in its inside: in that year the field will not prosper. |
| 1' | If the Pleiades stand in it: that man will give birth to female children. |
| 14' | If the star....... |
| 15' | If... and |
| 6' | If the Scorpion stands inside it: women(?) will die. |
| 3' | If the Bow stands inside it: men will die and there will be famine in the land. |
| 8' | If the Yoke stands in it: the king will die and his land will diminish. |
| 9' | If the Arrow stands in it: there will be barley and thunder in the land. |
| 13' | ... reeds and dates, not favourable...... |
| 4' | If the Shepherd of Anu stands inside it: there will be lightning in the land. |
| 5' | (If) ditto: there will be harvest, variant: the son of the king. |
| 11' | If the Field(?) stands inside it: in the land there will be famine. |
| 12' | — Mars stands inside it: destruction of cattle; there will be famine in the land. |
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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