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Liver Omens pl. 02 no. 20 (P452132)
CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Liver Omens pl. 02 no. 20 |
|---|---|
| ID | P452132 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Extispicy |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse col 5 9' | If the king and the man's necks are swollen: he will die. |
| reverse col 5 13' | There is a 'foot'-mark in the top of the'station.' |
| reverse col 5 1' | The king, my lord, can be glad indeed! This is the rite of the king that is being completed |
| reverse col 5 14' | (If) a god does not hear (it) with a weapon: the prince |
| reverse col 5 6' | The king is ill: he will die. |
| reverse col 5 2' | If a man is surrounded by a neck:.... |
| reverse col 5 16' | If the'station' is located on the top of the'station.' |
| reverse col 6 4' | I wrote, collated, and |
| reverse col 5 12' | (and) the sons of scribal art enter into the land. |
| reverse col 5 15' | its womb will not reach. |
| reverse col 5 4' | You recite his incantation over a man. |
| reverse col 5 5' | If the middle of the'station' is split: attack of the enemy. |
| reverse col 5 7' | If a man is seized by a ghost: he will die. |
| reverse col 5 10' | the land will pass by. |
| reverse col 6 2' | (Property of) the land of Sumer and Akkad. |
| reverse col 5 3' | If a man's head... in the top of a man's head.... |
| reverse col 6 3' | That tablet, with the support of the army, |
| reverse col 5 8' | The king will die from a sickness. |
| reverse col 6 1' | According to the wording of the tablet(s), |
| reverse col 5 17' | The strong lion comes out in the king's reign. |
| reverse col 5 11' | If the back of the'station' is 'bound' in the'station.' |
| reverse col 5 19' | king of... clay |
| reverse col 5 18' | That is unfavourable. |
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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