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JCS 76, Tablet B (BM 086381) (P544779)
Omens, Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE
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| Designation | JCS 76, Tablet B (BM 086381) |
|---|---|
| ID | P544779 |
| Museum no. | BM 086381 |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Old Babylonian · c. 1900 BCE–1600 BCE |
| Genre | Omens |
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 col 1 16 | The wall of the moon is surrounded by an upper wall in Nisannu (I) on the fourteenth day. The king of Akkad is well, and the people are well. The wall of the king of Akkad is unsuitable. The ubtu-disease is present. The ubtu-disease is present. |
| obverse col 1 6 | The upper part in the upper part is elevated and has turned back the RIRI.GA (means): and URI (means): |
| obverse col 2 24 | The wall of Simanu (Month III), the fourteenth day, the king whose name is alive, his son who to the king does not seize the royal throne, and the nku-rtu-priestess is present. |
| reverse col 3 50 | The 16th day: the king will kill his life. |
| reverse col 4 64 | The twentyth day: aluqtu-disease of Ur. |
| obverse col 1 15 | The wall of the 3rd came out and (then) he made it tremble. The upper part, the great king, the circumference of his land, |
| obverse col 2 29 | (If) on the sixteenth day there is a huu-disease: rejoicing. |
| reverse col 3 48 | The city wall of Kislimu (Month IX), day 14, eponymy and whatever he created, and (then) the Adad of the heavens became frightened, the people of Elam wailed, and the land destroyed. |
| obverse col 1 14 | (If) he sees a fog in the evening and in the evening watch: the king of the Westland will die. |
| obverse col 1 9 | (If) a fog comes out at the moon’s threshing floor and it has swollen: the people of Elam and the land Qutu will be killed. |
| reverse col 4 53 | (If) the day of the eponymy of the fourteenth day of the month ebtu (X) the harvest harvests: the god will know (this); the goat and the namastu will become confused in the open country. |
| reverse col 4 63 | The sixteenth day: the land will be abandoned; it will be destroyed. |
| reverse col 4 56 | The twentyth day: the land of aluqtu will become stable; he will build the wall. |
| obverse col 1 11 | [If the moon] emerges from its yoke and stands in front of the light: there will be an eclipse of the sun. |
| reverse col 3 43 | The city wall is a day of joy; there will be famine in the land. |
| reverse col 3 45 | (If) he crosses the river on the 15th day: he will destroy her debts. |
| obverse col 2 30 | (If) on the twentieth day: the king of Elam will roam around in the steppe of the land. |
| obverse col 2 31 | (If) on the 14th day of Ab (V) the great king knows that his throne will be destroyed, his land will be seized. His river will be scattered. |
| reverse col 4 65 | the city wall of Der. On the fourteenth day, in the land of Antum he will reside and his people will give (them) to the silver. |
| edge 67 | (If) the Moon at its appearance is faint and...: he will make an eclipse. |
| obverse col 1 3 | The upper part is elevated to the west: the life of the land of Akkad. |
| reverse col 3 47 | (If) on the 20th day: the king will rule the land with a weapon. |
| obverse col 1 1 | the upper side to the south to his husband |
| reverse col 4 62 | The month of Nisannu (I), the day of the remission of the land, the destruction of the land will be carried off. The flood will be afflicted. |
| reverse col 3 37 | (If) on the 15th day the son of the king his father will die and he will seize the throne of his father. |
| reverse col 3 42 | The king of the world will die on the sixteenth day; his reign will be long; his son will not enter his throne. |
| reverse col 4 60 | The city wall, the twentieth day, will destroy the land. The city wall, the twentieth day, will destroy the land. |
| obverse col 1 20 | The city wall is the 21st day. |
| obverse col 1 19 | The day of the 19th day: a rejoicing bed; awe-inspiring radiance. |
| obverse col 1 10 | (If) the moon from that one made bright and went to the east: the upper part of Akkad (and) the land Subartu (and) the land Amurru to the land Elam and the land Qutu he will recover. |
| reverse col 4 58 | The right side of the aluqtu-wall he sees, and the left side he sees. That land will experience a good fortune, and the king's wall he sees, and the son of the king will not die. The king's neck will seize him. |
| obverse col 1 13 | (If) the Moon is eclipsed in the evening and in the evening watch: the king of Akkad will die. |
| reverse col 4 57 | The wall of abau (abu) on the fourteenth day is full of reeds and a flood will take place. The harvest of the city will change. The king will take the enemy away from his troops and he will conquer the land. |
| obverse col 2 21 | The city wall of Ayyaru (XII), the fourteenth day, king of the world, died. |
| edge 68 | If the moon at its appearance wears a crown: the land will... its.... |
| reverse col 4 66 | The 15th day: aluqtu-disease of Ur, the wall of the sixteenth day: the land Akkad will be destroyed. |
| obverse col 1 12 | (If) the Moon reaches its normal length: a flood will come. |
| obverse col 2 22 | On the 15th day of Akkad the king and his people are well. The king sends a hostile message to the king. |
| obverse col 1 17 | (If) on the 15th day he has died, the people of their extispicy will have to pay the silver. |
| obverse col 2 28 | The wall, the 15th day, a rejoicing glow in heaven, a rejoicing flood in the river, a rejoicing flood, a rejoicing flood on his father’s throne, |
| reverse col 4 54 | The wall of the 15th day is bright; there will be plenty in the sky, there will be plenty in the river. |
| edge 34 | The threshing floor of the 19th day is not finished. |
| reverse col 3 49 | The enemy will destroy the city wall on the 15th day. |
| reverse col 3 52 | On the twenty-first day he will have the usufruct of the land in the midst of a hostile land. |
| reverse col 3 36 | the wall of Ullu (VI) on the fourteenth day: death to the king and the troops will fall. |
| obverse col 1 2 | The upper part is elevated. |
| reverse col 3 44 | The wall of Arasamnu, on the fourteenth day, there was plenty in the sky, in the river. |
| obverse col 1 5 | the upper side on its lower side, together with it, together with it, the king shall die. |
| obverse col 2 26 | (If) the wall of the sixteenth day: the king of Subartu will die with a weapon. The brother of the king will seize the throne. The river will be destroyed and its ill-being will be destroyed. On account of whatever happens in the river he will live. The open country will destroy the great land to small and small. |
| obverse col 2 25 | The wall of the 15th day: the king of the Westland will kill him in a hostile manner. |
| reverse col 3 39 | (If) on the 20th day: the king's son will enter the throne of his father's house. |
| reverse col 4 55 | The wall, the sixteenth day, will not be forgotten; it will seize the throne, and it will become a ruin hill in the land. |
| obverse col 1 18 | (If) on the sixteenth day the god rises in a womb: a great star overwhelms the city. The king's and his people will conquer. The black-headed people will be seized and destroyed. |
| obverse col 2 23 | The 16th day: the king of the Westland will die. His land will be destroyed for a second time. |
| obverse col 2 27 | The city wall of Duzu (umma lu IV) is located on the fourteenth day. The king who whose name he created will destroy, (and) whose light in heaven (and) in the river will rise, (and) the steppe will become a flood. |
| reverse col 3 38 | The 16th day: the king of the land of allim to the land of alim; he will seize the throne. |
| obverse col 2 33 | The wall, the sixteenth day, a nrgal-demon, a allnu-demon, will arise. |
| reverse col 3 51 | The 20th day: rejoicing of the god. |
| obverse col 1 8 | the upper side on the east, the lower side on the west, the lower side on the east, |
| obverse col 2 32 | The 15th day is bright; in the sky everything in the river rises; the harvest will be heaped up; the king will send peace to the king. |
| reverse col 3 46 | The sixteenth day: the alputu of Ur. |
| reverse col 3 40 | The fourteenth day of Taritu (ulgi), the god, all of the troops, the remission of the debts of Elam, will bring (them) to the land. |
| reverse col 4 59 | (If) on the sixteenth day the city will go (and) the king will reach the highest rank and will overthrow the wall of the land; the army will fall. (If) the king of the land will enter into a safe land and he will reside on the throne. |
| edge 35 | (If) on the 20th day a lion stands in the middle of the gate: the city wall will be destroyed. |
| obverse col 1 7 | (If) he sees an eclipse in the middle of the sky: |
| reverse col 4 61 | The city wall of ebtu (X), the fourteenth day, the king of the Elamite (temple) became confused and he became frightened. If a man or a woman does not live, he became frightened and her husband gave her to silver. |
| edge 69 | (If) the Moon becomes eclipsed on the 12th day and its horn is pointed: the upper part is elevated. |
| reverse col 3 41 | On the 15th day, in front of the night, a locust will come up and the harvest will diminish. |
| obverse col 1 4 | (If) he is ill for his right shoulder: he will not raise a claim. |
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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