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BBR pl. 30 & 61, 1880-07-19, 0084 (P451969)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BBR pl. 30 & 61, 1880-07-19, 0084 |
|---|---|
| ID | P451969 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy; CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts |
| 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 1' | He takes (it) and takes (it) into the presence of a censer and a censer and he establishes it. |
| obverse 3' | He places 4 jugs of first-class beer in a table and places (it) in front of a censer and pours a censer. |
| obverse 10' | You set up a table before ama, |
| obverse 17' | From the top of the 'finger' to the 'finger' he will enter. |
| reverse 4' | Its ritual: He strews awe-inspiring brilliance. He binds duck-stone, agate, agate, and bread. |
| reverse 11' | (If) his eyes are darkened: he will build a brother and a cedar tree, and he will place (it) on his neck, and he will recover. |
| obverse 12' | He strews a censer and strews it, and he strews it |
| reverse 9' | May he place (them) on his thigh. May he make a decision on the right of the haruspex. And may he speak as follows: |
| obverse 18' | For the supplication of the god over him |
| obverse 8' | You set up 4 jugs of first-class beer in a table and you libate (it) in front of a censer. |
| obverse 6' | He takes (it) and places (it) in front of a censer. He removes a censer and recites (it). |
| obverse 2' | The lord lifts his hand (upon him) and he firmly establishes the foundations of the table before Aya. |
| obverse 11' | He places 4 jugs of first-class beer in a table and places (it) in front of a censer. |
| reverse 3' | The gods ama and Nabû stand faithfully in his lawsuit and |
| reverse 10' | (If) a haruspex is dark: he will become a haruspex. |
| reverse 6' | You stand on the left: there will be famine. |
| reverse 2' | (If) he is a pig, he is a lion, he is a lion, he is a lion, he is a lion, he is a lion |
| obverse 15' | He seated her before ama and Illil in this sacrifice on the throne and |
| obverse 7' | The lord lifts his hand (on him), and he recites the incantation. |
| obverse 9' | He strews a censer and recites the incantation. |
| obverse 5' | You set up the table before Marduk. |
| obverse 13' | The akin-umi made a sacrifice and made a case. |
| obverse 16' | His beer... upon ama and Adad, my (personal) god, may he be happy. |
| reverse 12' | The one who raises his right hand to ama, thus says ama |
| reverse 5' | and Nisaba, who resides in his mouth, shall have the usufruct of his feet. |
| obverse 14' | Lord ama, lord of the ziggurrat, holder of this fingernail: |
| reverse 8' | When a haruspex arose, may he appoint a scepter to his mouth. |
| obverse 4' | he set out, and he performed the sheep offering, his hand lifted, and he performed the sheep offerings. |
| reverse 7' | [May the sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial |
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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