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1879-07-08, 0229 unpublished unassigned ? (P451901)
CANONICAL > Divination > Other (Dreams, Birds, etc.) > Prodigies of the Fall of Akkad, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1879-07-08, 0229 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P451901 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Other (Dreams, Birds, etc.) > Prodigies of the Fall of Akkad |
| Find spot | Nineveh |
| 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 7 | In Nippur, at the time of Enlil, you libated wine in the heart of his land, a cursed person has been seen. |
| reverse 5 | .... may he be seized. One supplication is established, one supplication is located therein. |
| obverse 9' | He sat in salt on the bank of the river. |
| reverse 6 | in Borsippa, in the Ezida temple, water came into the bricks. |
| obverse 8' | (If) stars pass from there : in the midst of the land, the enemy will die. |
| reverse 4 | his... and his eyes are dark, hearing and hurupa being set (?). |
| reverse 3 | ... as he... |
| obverse 4' | (If) an ox comes close to a donkey: attack against a dog. |
| obverse 5' | (If) a white eagle, a white eagle, has been seen in the city |
| obverse 3' | (If) a man approaches his mother: a man will approach his sister. a man will approach his daughter. |
| obverse 10' | In Babylon, with the hem of Bel the dead man has seen a sa.RI-demon. |
| reverse 1 | (If) a fire in Taritu (Month VII) in Esagila (and) in the copper house he has (them) in mind: |
| obverse 6' | In (the month) Arasamna (VIII), fire in Esagil in the house of tinuru has risen |
| obverse 7' | (If) a fire flares up in the apsû of the god Ura: sagulaza will appear in the cella. |
| reverse 2 | When the cow was born, when the wild bull was born and... its 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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