SAA 04, 231 (P237081)
Extispicy Query, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 231 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237081 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Extispicy Query |
| 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 1'1'–o 1'1' | [Is it decreed and confirmed in a favorable case, by the com]mand of [your great] divinity, [Šamaš, great lord]? |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [Does your great divinity] know (it)? Will he who can se[e, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it]? |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [Disregard that ......]...[......]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [Disregard the (formulation) of] today's [ca]se, b[e it good, be it faulty]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [Disregard that a clean or an un]clean person has touc[hed] the sacrificial sheep, [or blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [Disregard that an unc]lean man or woman [has come near the place of the extispicy and made it unclean]. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | [Disregard that an unclean person has performed extispicy in] this pla[ce]. |
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' | [i-na SILIM-tim i-na] ⸢KA⸣ DINGIR-⸢ti⸣-[ka GAL-i {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂] | |
| 2' | [qa-bi-i ku-un DINGIR-ut-ka GAL-ti] ZU-e IGI-⸢ru⸣ [IGI-ra ŠE.GA-u₂ ŠE.GA-e] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x] ⸢ti ar⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [e-zib ša₂ di]-⸢in⸣ UD NE-i ⸢GIM⸣ [DUG₃-ab GIM ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
| 2' | [e-zib ša₂ KUG lu]-ʾu-u₂ SISKUR.SISKUR ⸢TAG⸣-[MEŠ u₂—lu ana IGI SISKUR.SISKUR GIL-MEŠ] | |
| 3' | [e-zib ša₂ lu-ʾu]-⸢u₂⸣ lu-ʾu-u₂-⸢ti⸣ [KI MAŠ₂ DIB-MEŠ-ma u₂-le-ʾu-u₂] | |
| 4' | [e-zib ša₂ i-na] ⸢KI⸣ NE-i [lu-ʾu-u₂ MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂-u₂] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x ti⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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