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CM 43, pl. 9 (P555806)
Divination, Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | CM 43, pl. 9 |
|---|---|
| ID | P555806 |
| Museum no. | BM 077739 |
| 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) |
|---|---|
| obverse col 1' 17' | If Adad reaches the 16th |
| obverse col 1' 8' | If Adad 7 fingers |
| obverse col 1' 9' | If Adad 8 fingers |
| reverse col 1 2' | ... strong(?) |
| reverse col 1 6' | If Adad roars and a rainbow whose snake is red: attack of the river. |
| reverse col 1 7' | If Adad thunders in its horns: rains will be cut off. Ea will die. |
| reverse col 1 10' | If Adad thunders in a cloud: : he will die. |
| obverse col 1' 4' | If Adad 3 times |
| obverse col 1' 11' | If Adad 10 fingers |
| obverse col 1' 10' | If Adad 9 fingers |
| obverse col 1' 12' | Adad 11 issi |
| obverse col 1' 16' | If Adad reaches the right side of the gall bladder |
| obverse col 1' 18' | If Adad reaches the 17th |
| reverse col 1 4' | If Adad thunders and a rainbow... together |
| reverse col 1 3' | If Adad afflicts him and a rainbow. |
| obverse col 1' 6' | If Adad 5 fingers |
| obverse col 1' 14' | Adad 1 ii |
| obverse col 1' 5' | If Adad... 4 fingers |
| obverse col 1' 15' | If Adad reaches the 14th |
| obverse col 1' 7' | If Adad... 6 fingers |
| reverse col 1 8' | If Adad - in his limbs he is a lion - is a lion - there will be famine. |
| obverse col 1' 2' | If Adad reaches 1 fingers |
| obverse col 1' 3' | If Adad 2 fingers |
| obverse col 1' 13' | If Adad reaches 1 fingers |
| reverse col 1 5' | If Adad thunders and a rainbow whose snake is white: there will be famine in the land. |
| reverse col 1 9' | If Adad reaches its normal length: the harvest. |
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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