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BBR pl. 38 Rm 2, 564 (P473723)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | BBR pl. 38 Rm 2, 564 |
|---|---|
| ID | P473723 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| 25' | ... a star...... |
| 39' | ... juniper, tullal plant(?) |
| 31' | ............ |
| 38' | ... cedar, cypress |
| 24' | ... I built a pitfall... |
| 2' | May a cedar stand at his left side for a sheep and its horns. |
| 40' | ......... |
| 23' | ... the foundation(?) of cedar in heaven |
| 3' | May a haruspex establish it on the right. And may he say as follows: |
| 41' | ..., zibitu-stone, carnelian, uba-stone |
| 14' | ... horn of juniper...... |
| 35' | ... Ninurta, the Field... |
| 28' | ... the teeming eagle performs a KADU8HU.DA prayer. |
| 17' | ... lapis lazuli, pappardilû-stone, agate, ankallu-stone |
| 36' | ..... he built... |
| 30' | .... you give to you. |
| 42' | ...... in black-headed people. |
| 6' | (If) oil is seen on the face of a chariot: the haruspex his eyes |
| 10' | ... there was no shame |
| 26' | ... built a cedar tree, the name of Nergal |
| 22' | ...... the Steppe... |
| 32' | ... Marduk, alternatively, Nusku |
| 9' | Whom in his right hand oil to ama thus speaks, ama |
| 5' | It is a ka'anu-plant; it is dark. |
| 4' | May ama my case judge me. |
| 15' | ... a male tavern |
| 13' | ... innu plant |
| 16' | ... peace in... kamu-stone, annu-stone |
| 33' | ... of cedar, you have decreed your fate. |
| 29' | ... alternatively Marduk |
| 18' | ubû-stone, marhalu-stone, kurNUDAB-stone |
| 27' | ... cedar after |
| 20' | ............. you put on his neck... |
| 11' | ... speaks and... |
| 12' | Its ritual: The haruspex to the apsû |
| 8' | You put in his garments... |
| 1' | When a haruspex arose, may he see an ox. |
| 37' | ... their... |
| 7' | (If) he builds a cedar tree in his body and on his neck |
| 34' | ... the Arrow rises and KADU8HU.DA... |
| 21' | When the skin of a chanter is..., |
| 19' | ... he shall raise... and he shall proclaim... |
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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