PRT 015 (P236929)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 015 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236929 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa04 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep] is dressed [in his ordinary soiled garment]s, [has eaten, drunk, or anointed himself with anything unclean], has altered or changed [the (ritual) proceedings, or (that) the oracle query] has become jumbled [in] his [mouth]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant], am dressed [in my ordinary] soiled garments. |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | [I ask you, Šamaš], great lo[rd, whether the governors and magnates, men, horses and ar]my [of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who are going to col]lect tribute [......] |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib ša₂ TAG-it SAG.KI UDU.NITA₂ TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-šu₂ ar₂-ša₂-a]-ti lab-šu₂ | |
| 2 | [mim-ma lu-ʾu-u₂ KU₂ NAG-u₂ ŠEŠ₂-šu₂ ku-un qa-ti] BAL-u₂ uš-pe-lu | |
| 3 | [u₂—lu ta-mit i-na KA]-šu₂ ip-tar-ri-du | |
| 4 | [e-zib ša₂ a-na-ku DUMU—{lu₂}HAL DUMU—{lu₂}HAL ARAD-ka TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-a] ⸢ar⸣-ša₂-a-ti lab-ša₂-ku | |
| 5 | [lu-u₂ ZI-MEŠ lu-u₂ BAR-MEŠ a-šal-ka {d}UTU] ⸢EN⸣ GAL-u₂ | |
| 6 | [ki-i {lu₂}EN.NAM-MEŠ {lu₂}GAL-MEŠ ERIM-MEŠ {anše}KUR.RA-MEŠ e]-⸢mu⸣-qu | |
| 7 | [ša₂ {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur a-na e]-se-er man-da-at-ta | |
Sources & licences
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