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MUL.APIN, text X (P496529)
Divination, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | MUL.APIN, text X |
|---|---|
| ID | P496529 |
| Museum no. | BM 032626 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
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) |
|---|---|
| col 3 3' | Total: these are the ziqpu-stars of the cavalry of Enlil which are in the middle of the sky. |
| col 2 2' | If the Bristle of Ea |
| col 3 7' | During the night, ama will rise and you stand on your right. |
| col 2 3' | If the Kidney Star reaches Ea |
| col 2 6' | If a star stands on its left side: the Field, the Weapon of the son of the house. |
| col 3 2' | the Great Twins, the Crab, the Lion, the Erua, and the Great Twins |
| col 2 1' | If the Fish, Ea, goes in front of the stars of Ea |
| col 2 4' | If a star stands on its right: Ninmah. |
| col 3 5' | ... in their hearts you see. |
| col 2 10' | If a star stands in the left side of the Scorpion: the Panther, Kusu. |
| col 2 7' | If two stars stand behind it: ullat and ani. |
| col 3 6' | If he (= Iqqur pu) opens the door in front of you |
| col 3 1' | the Lion, the Field, the Old Man, the Old Man, the Field |
| col 2 8' | ... ama and Adad |
| col 2 5' | If the Field (is) Ningirsu’s |
| col 2 9' | If a star stands behind them like Ea:.... |
| col 1 3' | ... days |
| col 3 4' | ... of the watch of the sky stood... |
| col 3 8' | (If) your left side is surrounded by a fox: the south wind of the Qumaru of the Arrow. |
| col 3 9' | (If) in the middle of the sky, in front of your breast, the Lion rises. |
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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