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SAA 08, 560 (P237195)

Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSAA 08, 560
IDP237195
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreDivination
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1[...... h]imself
Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22[......] fell
Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33[......] died
Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44[......] leader
Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55[...... d]ied
Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66[......] died
Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77[......] were given
Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88[......] long
Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1[......] black
Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22[The king my lord can be] glad.
Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33[......] the Pleiades
Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55[......] Old Man star

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
1[x x x x x] ⸢ram⸣-ni-šu₂
2[x x x x x] ⸢im⸣-qu-ut
3[x x x x x] im-tu-ut
4[x x x x] a-lik—pa-an
5[x x x im]-tu-ut
6[x x x x]-na im-tu-ut
7[x x x x x x] na-ad-nu
8[x x x x] GID₂.DA-MEŠ
r
1[x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ GI₆
2[x x x x x] ṭa-ab-šu₂
3[x x x x x x] MUL.MUL
4[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {mul}ŠU.GI
5[x x x x x x]-u₂
6[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣
7[x x x x x]-na ⸢LUGAL⸣
8[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣-bi
9[x x x x x x x]

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