PRT 006 (P237027)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 006 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237027 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [Šamaš, great lord, give me a f]irm positive answ[er to what I am asking you]! |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | [From the ...th day of this month], Shebat (XI) of [this year, to the ...th day of Nisan (I) of the] coming [year], 40 days [and nights, my stipulated term] — |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [within this stipulated term], should [Esarhaddon, k]ing of Assyria, s[trive and plan, and send NN with an army, as he wishes, ag]ainst Kaštari[tu, city lord of Karkaššî]? |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [If he sends him and he goes, is it pleasing] to [your great] divinity? |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | May (this query) go [to your great divinity, O Šamaš, gre]at [lord, and may an oracle be given as an answer]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | {[d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ ša₂ a-šal-lu-ka] ⸢an⸣-na GI.⸢NA⸣ [a-pal-an-ni] | |
| 2 | [TA UD x-KAM₂ ša₂ ITI NE]-⸢i⸣ {iti}ZIZ₂.AM₃ ša₂ [MU.AN.NA NE-ti EN UD x-KAM₂] | |
| 3 | [ša₂ {iti}BARAG ša₂ MU.AN.NA e]-rib-tu 40 UD-MEŠ 40 MI-MEŠ ši-kin RI-ia] | |
| 4 | [ina ši-kin RI UR₅-tu₂ {1}AN.ŠAR₂—ŠEŠ—SUM-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR—AN.ŠAR₂ li-⸢iṣ⸣-[rim lik-pid-ma x x x x] | |
| 5 | [a-di e-mu-qi₂ mal₂ ŠA₃-šu₂ ub-lu i-na] ⸢UGU⸣ {1}kaš-ta-ri-[ti EN—URU EN—URU ša₂ {uru}kar—kaš-ši-i] | |
| 6 | [liš-pur GIM il-tap-ru il-la-ku] UGU DINGIR-⸢ti⸣-[ka GAL-ti DUG₃.GA] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti {d}UTU EN GAL]-u₂ DU-[ik-ma KIN li-tap-pal] | |
Sources & licences
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