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SAA 04, 294 (P237208)

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

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DesignationSAA 04, 294
IDP237208
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreExtispicy Report
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa04 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1'[... Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, your] creature
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'[......] to the land
Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3'[......] their [mes]senger [...]
Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4'[......] Assurbanipal, king of [Assyria]
Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–[......] now [...]
Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22[......] the ground [...]

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 {1}AN.ŠAR₂—DU₃—A LUGAL KUR—AN.ŠAR₂] DU₃-ut [ŠU-ka]
2'[x x x x x x x x x x x]-ti ana {kur}[x x]
3'[x x x x x x x x x {lu₂]}A—KIN-šu₂-nu {lu₂]}A—KIN-šu₂-nu i-[x x]
4'[x x x x x x x x x x {1}AN.ŠAR₂—DU₃—A LUGAL KUR—[AN.ŠAR₂]
5'[x x x x x x x x x x x] i-na-an-na ⸢i⸣-[x x]
r
1[x x x x x x x x x x x x]-i qaq-qar ⸢x⸣+[x x x x]
2[x x x x x x x x x x x x] ŠU-su [x x x x]

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