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Nisaba 2, pl. IX 4 (P452167)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 2, pl. IX 4 |
|---|---|
| ID | P452167 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 7' | ditto; weak one, female slave...; |
| 14' | If the Moon at its appearance wears a crown: the star is... on its right. |
| 1' | If 3.... |
| 2' | ... Sin(?) |
| 8' | If a land not... its land... a favorable word to the land |
| 3' | If a cloudburst... |
| 4' | If Mars rises and is seen with evil.... |
| 13' | If the anomaly is very thin: the land will be destroyed. Ditto: the land will be well.... |
| 15' | If it is surrounded by a star:.... |
| 9' | If he is ill and he sees a enemy: in the land he will take.... |
| 10' | If in Dumuzi(?) (it is seen): the great gods will... the land for evil. |
| 5' | If he... and ditto....... |
| 12' | If a sow gives birth to a baby: there will be famine. Ditto. |
| 18' | ...... |
| 11' | If there is an eclipse: ditto the lands will be destroyed.... |
| 6' | If the Moon at its appearance... a hostile land.... |
| 17' | If it is bright and black: the land in....... |
| 16' | If it is surrounded by a halo and it is covered in a... halo |
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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