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CT 41, pl. 06-08, BM 038158 (P479355)
CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | CT 41, pl. 06-08, BM 038158 |
|---|---|
| ID | P479355 |
| Museum no. | BM 038158 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Terrestrial > Šumma ālu |
| Find spot | uncertain (mod. uncertain) |
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 32 | If a bird...: that house will be overturned. |
| obverse 77 | If a bird ditto: his property will be well. |
| obverse 76 | If a snake ditto: that house will be scattered. |
| obverse 12 | If a bird... |
| obverse 38 | If a bird ditto:.... |
| obverse 27 | ... ditto. |
| obverse 31 | If a bird ditto: property of the house.... |
| obverse 91 | If a sow gives birth to a black locust and a bird ditto: the house will.... |
| obverse 75 | If a snake ditto: that house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 14 | If a bird... |
| obverse 16 | If a bird... |
| obverse 58 | If there is a mole on the right side of the bird ditto and it is not his hand: |
| obverse 23 | If....... |
| obverse 36 | If a brother is a bird ditto: a house will be scattered. |
| obverse 28 | ... ditto: that house...... |
| obverse 10 | If a bird... |
| obverse 80 | ... a bird ditto: that house... |
| obverse 57 | If a snake ditto: that house will not prosper. |
| obverse 71 | ... a bird ditto, in that house, ditto, the house... |
| obverse 92 | If a locust (or) a bird ditto and.... |
| obverse 35 | If a bird ditto: evil will die. |
| obverse 63 | If a bird ditto: that house will be scattered. |
| obverse 45 | If a bird ditto: disaster. |
| obverse 56 | If a bird ditto: barley will be piled up in a man's house. |
| obverse 81 | If a bird ditto: that house.... |
| obverse 82 | If a bird ditto:... will be scattered. |
| obverse 54 | ... shepherd, ditto: that house will be scattered. |
| obverse 68 | If a bird ditto: that house will be a palace.... |
| obverse 43 | If a bird ditto: his property will be destroyed. |
| obverse 95 | ... bird |
| obverse 2 | ... a bird ditto... |
| obverse 21 | If a qadu-plant |
| obverse 51 | If an anomaly - a bird ditto: the king will become satisfied. |
| obverse 66 | ... apartu-bird ditto: that house will be scattered.... |
| obverse 62 | If a bird ditto: the napartu of Nergal. |
| obverse 49 | If a bird ditto: that house will be scattered. |
| obverse 86 | If a bird ditto: the evil of that house will be seized. |
| obverse 40 | If a bird ditto: |
| obverse 20 | If Anpa... |
| obverse 11 | If a snake... |
| obverse 70 | If a bird ditto: the wife of a man will become poor. |
| obverse 93 | If a locust is white: a bird.... |
| obverse 64 | If a kudurrnu-bird ditto: that house will be walled. |
| obverse 47 | If a bird ditto: that house will be scattered. |
| obverse 22 | If a dog... |
| obverse 15 | If.... |
| obverse 17 | If.... |
| obverse 29 | ... ditto: that house... |
| obverse 48 | If Iur-ur, son of a bird, ditto: that house will be scattered. |
| obverse 88 | If a locust is black: a snake.... |
| obverse 85 | If a snake ditto: that house will become the hand of a king. |
| obverse 89 | If a locust... a black spot like a bird ditto... a house |
| obverse 33 | If a snake ditto:.... |
| obverse 50 | If a bird ditto: the king will become happy. |
| obverse 61 | If a bird ditto: hand of Ahi. |
| obverse 37 | If a bird ditto: attack of ditto; hand of the king of his land :....... |
| obverse 52 | If Anzitu a bird ditto: the king will conquer his land. |
| obverse 19 | The city... |
| obverse 78 | If a bird ditto is swollen:.... |
| obverse 83 | If a snake ditto:.... |
| obverse 55 | If a bird ditto: attack of the land.... |
| obverse 59 | If a bird ditto: that house will not prosper. |
| obverse 1 | ... a bird to the house |
| obverse 5 | If a snake ditto:.... |
| obverse 18 | If Hand... |
| obverse 79 | If a bird ditto stands in the middle of the sky:.... |
| obverse 42 | (If) a snake ditto: that house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 39 | If a snake ditto: in that house barley will be piled up. |
| obverse 72 | ... the house... a bird ditto: hand of Marduk. |
| obverse 87 | If a locust is white: a bird ditto. |
| obverse 74 | If a bird ditto: that house will be destroyed. |
| obverse 3 | If a bird ditto:.... |
| obverse 30 | ... ditto: that house... |
| obverse 65 | ...-lnu, a bird, ditto: in that house he will eat barley. |
| obverse 46 | If a snake ditto: that house will be seized. |
| obverse 44 | If a bird ditto: he will die. |
| obverse 84 | If a snake ditto: in that house there will be famine. |
| obverse 13 | If a sorcerer... |
| obverse 7 | ... bird... |
| obverse 6 | If a bird ditto:.... |
| obverse 34 | If a bird ditto: death in a man's house. |
| obverse 69 | If a sow gives birth to a bird: ditto the wife of a man. |
| obverse 90 | If a locust is red: a snake... in that house. |
| obverse 60 | If a bird ditto: hand of Marduk. |
| obverse 4 | ... bird ditto... |
| obverse 94 | ... bird ditto... |
| obverse 9 | If an igirû-plant... a bird.... |
| obverse 41 | If a snake ditto: that house will be scattered. |
| obverse 67 | If a bird ditto: that house will be seized. The oil of the horns.... |
| obverse 73 | If an anomaly - a bird's nest - ditto: that house will be abandoned. |
| obverse 8 | ...-mu bird |
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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