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NMSD.7979 (ebl:NMSD.7979)

CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu, Middle Babylonian, Ugarit · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE

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Designation	NMSD.7979
ID	ebl:NMSD.7979
Museum no.	NMSD.7979
Language	Akkadian
Period	Middle Babylonian · c. 1400 BCE–1100 BCE
Genre	CANONICAL > Divination > Teratological > Šumma izbu
Find spot	Ugarit
Coordinates	35.6021, 35.7853

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)
22	... woman
15	If a woman ditto its eyes are not present(?)
17	If a woman...... a bowl....
11	If a woman ditto (and) its eye is red: lion....
16	If a woman ditto: her eye... 1?...
9	If a woman gives birth and their hips....
7	If a woman gives birth and its breasts are 2:....
19	If a woman.......
20	If a woman.......
21	If a woman.......
4	If a woman gives birth and its heads.
14	If a woman ditto (and) its left eye is large and....
18	If a woman....
5	If a woman gives birth and its heads are 4:....
3	If a sow gives birth and its heads...
6	If a woman gives birth and its 2 necks...
12	If a woman ditto: its eyes....
10	If a woman ditto is seen with its face: lion....
13	If a woman ditto is seen on the right and....
8	If a woman gives birth and its head(?) is not present(?)
2	... their face

Sources & licences

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)

Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-18.