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AAT pl. 16 (P452021)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AAT pl. 16 |
|---|---|
| ID | P452021 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse 3' | The 15th day stands on the left. |
| obverse 15' | If on the 15th day 180° per day. |
| reverse 2' | If in abau (Month XI) |
| obverse 1' | [If the Moon] reaches the 4th day: 3 45°. |
| obverse 9' | On the4.9th day 108 stands. |
| obverse 5' | If on the 4.5th day the moon stands 60. |
| obverse 12' | On the 12th day: 144°. |
| reverse 1' | he will recover. In the month |
| obverse 16' | The 16th day stands 168. |
| reverse 4' | If in Addaru (XII) on the 4th day. |
| reverse 13' | For my reading, I entrusted it to my palace. |
| reverse 7' | If the moon rejoices and is dark: an eclipse of the king of Akkad |
| obverse 8' | The 8th day is 96. |
| reverse 6' | The eyes and land... |
| obverse 13' | On the 13th day: 156°. |
| obverse 19' | If on the 19th day: 132 he will stand. |
| obverse 7' | If on the 24th day: 84°. |
| obverse 17' | If on the 17th day it stands 1 56. |
| reverse 11' | Whoever among the kings who preceded me has not received that work, |
| reverse 9' | which Nabû (and) Tashmetu gave wide understanding |
| obverse 20' | If on the 20th day he stands 120 in number. |
| obverse 6' | On the 4th day: 72°. |
| obverse 2' | If the day 7° 30' stands |
| obverse 14' | On the 14th day: 168°. |
| reverse 10' | They rejoiced. The eyes were full of scribal art. |
| obverse 11' | The 11th day stands 132. |
| obverse 10' | On the 10th day 120 stands. |
| reverse 8' | It is the fourteenth tablet. When Anu Enlil the palace of Ashurbanipal king of the world king of Assyria |
| obverse 18' | If on the 18th day he stands 144. |
| reverse 3' | If in abau (Month XI), on the 15th day |
| reverse 12' | I wrote, collated, and checked the word of Nabû, as many as there are. |
| obverse 4' | If on the 4th day the moon stands there: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| reverse 5' | If in Addaru (Month XII), on day 15... |
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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