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JCS 68, 138-144 (P499242)
Divination, Neo-Babylonian, Sippar-Yahrurum · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | JCS 68, 138-144 |
|---|---|
| ID | P499242 |
| Museum no. | BM 061665 (+) BM 093054 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| Find spot | Sippar-Yahrurum (mod. Tell Abu Habbah) |
| Coordinates | 33.0605, 44.2552 |
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 3 | If the lung is like the 'finger' of the lung: attack of Ibbi-Sîn. |
| obverse 1 | If two ewes............. |
| reverse 6 | The king who... akkan and Nisaba are present in the land |
| reverse 8 | ... no one... sees. |
| obverse 3 | (If) he is seized by Narm-Sîn... |
| reverse 9 | The middle of the middle 'finger' is 'loose.' |
| reverse 10 | ...... |
| reverse 7 | The middle of the 'finger' is like a.... |
| reverse 2 | If the right of the lung and the left of the lung are swollen: ama-egal will die. |
| obverse 4 | If three ewes are on them: meat.... |
| reverse 1 | If... and like a erimma tree.......... |
| obverse 10 | In his city, the owner of the man being sold. |
| obverse 2 | If two ewes... and in the left of the gall bladder a hole is provided with a... |
| obverse 8 | If a 'well-being' is located like a crescent moon: the king of the sons of his palace will kill him in their seals. |
| reverse 5 | If the middle surface of the 'finger' of the lung is...:.... |
| reverse 4 | If a lung like ditto (or) a ditto:.... |
| obverse 5 | (If) he... his enemy in his city...... he will be killed. |
| obverse 7 | (If) the breasts of the kings are small: his palace will enter. |
| obverse 9 | If a dog is stricken like the head of a dog: there will be a famine of the boatman of the ground. |
| obverse 6 | If three ewes are on them: meat... |
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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