SAA 08, 400 (P237563)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 08, 400 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237563 |
| Museum no. | BM 099230 |
| 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/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [If ......] attack of locusts. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [If ......] plenty for the people. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | [If a planet] stands there [in Elul (VI)]: rising of business, [abundance] of grain. |
| Obverse [4:11] o 55– | [If Mars] comes close to the Old Man star: there w[ill be] a revolution [in the Westland, and brother] will kill [brother; the emblems of the lands] will be overthro[wn; a secret of the land] will go to another [land; the gods will leave] it (and) will turn away from it. |
| Reverse [3:8] r 44–r 88 | [If ...] into Gemini [......] ... [......] ... [......] evil for the Westland, [good for the king] my [lord]. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [From Rašil] the older, [servant of the king]. |
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 | 1 x x x x x] ⸢ZI⸣-ut BURU₅-HI.A | |
| 2 | 1 x x x x x] nu-huš UN-MEŠ | |
| 3 | 1 {mul}UDU.IDIM ina {iti]}⸢KIN⸣ GUB E₁₁ KI.LAM | |
| 4 | [na]-⸢pa⸣-aš₂ {d}NISABA | |
| 5 | {[mul]}⸢ṣal⸣-bat-a-nu ana {mul}ŠU.GI TE | |
| 6 | [ina KUR]—⸢MAR⸣.TU{ki} na-bal-kat-tum ⸢GAL₂⸣-[ma] | |
| 7 | [ŠEŠ] ⸢ŠEŠ⸣-šu₂ GAZ-ak | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ŠU.NIR KUR uš]-tal₂-pa-[tu] | |
| 2 | {[mi₂}ŠEŠ KUR ana KUR ša]-ni-tu₂-ma GIN | |
| 3 | [DINGIR-MEŠ-šu₂ TAG₄-MEŠ]-šu₂ u₂-sah-ha-ru-⸢ši⸣ | |
| 4 | 1 {mul}x x] ana ŠA₃-bi {mul}MAŠ.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL | |
| 5 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ GI | |
| 6 | [x x x x] SI | |
| 7 | [x x x x x] ⸢HUL⸣ ša₂ KUR—MAR.TU{ki} | |
| 8 | [SIG₅ ša LUGAL be-li₂]-ia | |
| 9 | [ša₂ {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR ARAD ša₂ LUGAL] ⸢mah⸣-ru-u | |
Sources & licences
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