Keywords: Divinatory livers Louvre AO19837.jpg Divinatory livers clay models for the training of soothsayers The one in the middle is interpreted as fortelling the destruction of small cities Baken clay 19th “18th centuries BC found in the royal palace at Mari now in Syria Foies divinatoires modèles d'apprentissage pour devins La conformation du foie du milieu présage la destruction de petites villes Argile XIXe “XVIIIe siècles av J -C palais de Mari Museum Louvre Department of Oriental Antiquities Richelieu ground floor room 3 object history credit line Excavated by André Parrot 1935 “1936 accession number AO 19837 Jastrow 2005 other versions Palace of Zimri-Lim room 108 Akkadian language Clay archaeological objects Cuneiform on media Near Eastern Antiquities in the Louvre - Room 3 |