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1881-02-04, 0226 unpublished unassigned ? (P452145)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | 1881-02-04, 0226 unpublished unassigned ? |
|---|---|
| ID | P452145 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| reverse 7 | (If)... is like a boat (or) a boat (or) he goes to sunrise: the reign of the gods of the land will be long. |
| obverse 1 | ... (If) the Moon is yellow-green and its light is very bright :... will be seen in the evening watch. |
| reverse 8 | ... Ea-muallim, chief eridu(-priest) |
| reverse 11 | ... he entered all of the black-headed (people) |
| reverse 5 | If he builds a boat like a boat and he goes out to the east: in the land there will be truth and justice. |
| obverse 11 | ... is seen on Mercury. The sun is seen. : The sun is seen. : The sun is covered. |
| obverse 16 | If...... like a man's... he has...: he will become poor. |
| reverse 1 | ... like a boat : he will build a crown. In that month, the words... |
| reverse 4 | ... stand and |
| reverse 12 | ... there will be di'u-disease and famine in the land. |
| reverse 15 | If he is ill, he will have mercy on him, and he will have mercy on him like a father and a boat. |
| reverse 9 | ... is seen and he will die for ama. At his appearance the lower |
| obverse 17 | ... he saw... of a rainbow. |
| obverse 9 | ... 14th day : 15th day, from the outer wall the hapratu of the moon to the west. |
| reverse 14 | great king, strong king, king of the world, king of Assyria, who Nabû and Tashmetu |
| obverse 14 | Ullu (Month VII), Tlu (Month VII), ebtu (Month XI), abau (Month XII), (and) ebtu (Month XII), like the moon is visible: the heavens will be destroyed. |
| obverse 6 | On the 14th day one god is not seen with the other. |
| obverse 13 | ... stands with the sun. |
| obverse 18 | ... If the Pleiades are dark like the Pleiades: the Pleiades are bright. |
| reverse 2 | ...... : before... in... |
| obverse 12 | ... on the fourteenth day they see the moon. |
| obverse 4 | ... an eclipse? took place on it, and |
| obverse 5 | If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king will be angry with his land and his people. |
| obverse 8 | ...... (If) the Moon does not see the Moon and 2 ar-shrines are visible (= EAE 24(25) I 20) (means): in distant days. |
| obverse 15 | ... an eclipse took place all of it, and |
| reverse 10 | If... is white: he will die.... his... will be scattered. A white plan is on it. |
| reverse 16 | His eyes are covered in a rainbow, he established in his palace. |
| obverse 7 | If ditto a eclipse takes place in the moon and the sun and |
| reverse 3 | ... If he builds a boat like a boat and his dwelling... : he will die... |
| obverse 2 | ...... on the 1st day: he will see the underworld. |
| obverse 3 | ... that of an eclipse |
| reverse 6 | ... an eclipse will take place. |
| reverse 13 | ... at the disposal of Anu and Enlil, the palace of Ashurbanipal. |
| obverse 19 | ... an eclipse, and like allure. |
| obverse 10 | (If) the sun rises and the horns of the sun come close to the land and in a reed-bed and a reed-bed: the owner of the reeds will go out and alternatively, he will not make an eclipse. |
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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