AGS 042 (P237361)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 042 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237361 |
| 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 answer [to what I am asking y]ou! |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | Should [Esarhaddon, king of] Assyria, who is now [......], send [NN to the dis]trict of Manne[a ......]? |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [...]... Does your great divinity [know it]? |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [Is it decreed and confirmed in accordance with the command of your great divinity, Šamaš, great lord], and your favorable decisions? |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | [If they go, will they ... es]cape and st[ay alive] |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [I ask you ... whether ......] will go [...]. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | [Be present in this ram, place (in it) a firm positive answer, favorable designs], favorable, [propitious] omens [by the oracular command of] your [great divini]ty, [and may I see (them)]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [May (this query) go to your great divinity], O Šam[aš, great 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 | {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL] ⸢KUR⸣—{d}aš-šur ša₂ EŠ₂-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x a-na na]-ge-e ša₂ {lu₂}man-na-a.[a] | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ liš-pur-šu₂ DINGIR-ut-ka GAL-⸢ti⸣ [ZU-e] | |
| 5 | [GIM KA DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti {d}UTU EN GAL]-⸢u₂⸣ EŠ.BAR-ka SILIM-[mu] | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x uš-te]-⸢zi⸣-bu-u₂ [x x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] du [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ku [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ha-tu₂ [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x] DU-MEŠ [i-na ŠA₃ UDU.NITA₂ NE-i] | |
| 4' | [GUB-za-am-ma an-na GI.NA GIŠ.HUR-MEŠ SILIM-MEŠ UZU-MEŠ] ta-mit SIG₅-⸢MEŠ⸣ [SILIM-MEŠ] | |
| 5' | [ša₂ SILIM-tim ša₂ KA DINGIR]-⸢ti-ka⸣ [GAL-ti šuk-nam-ma lu-mur] | |
| 6' | [UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti] {d}⸢UTU⸣ [EN GAL-u₂ lil-lik-ma KIN li-tap-pal] | |
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