PRT 068 (P237376)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 068 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237376 |
| 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 firm positive answer [to what I am asking you]! |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | [From this day, the ...th day of this month], the month Adar (XII) of ..., [to the ...th day of the month ... of] the coming [year], 40 days [and nights, my stipulated term] — |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [......] in [...] |
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-mu NE-i UD x-KAM₂ ša₂ ITI NE-i] {iti}ŠE.KIN.KUD ša₂ x-⸢ma⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3 | [EN UD x-KAM₂ ša₂ {iti}x ša₂ MU.AN.NA] e-rib-ti 40 UD-MEŠ 40 MI-MEŠ] | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]-MEŠ [x] ⸢GAL⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]-tam-ma ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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