PRT 053 (P237642)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 053 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237642 |
| 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, gi]ve m[e a firm positive answer to what I am asking you]! |
| Obverse [1:5] o 22–o 55 | [Should Assurbanipal, son of Esarhaddon], king of Assyria, [appoint the man whose name is written in this papyrus] and [pla]ced [before your great divinity ......]? |
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 | [LU₂ ša₂ MU-šu₂ i-na ni-ʾa-a-ri an-na-a šaṭ-ru]-ma | |
| 3 | [i-na IGI DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti GAR]-un | |
| 4 | {1}{d}aš-šur—DU₃—DUMU.UŠ DUMU {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na] LUGAL KUR—aš-šur | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-su | |
Sources & licences
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