PRT 040 (P237649)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237649 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [...]... [will they attack (him), and kill and pl]unde[r him? Will Esarhaddon, king of Assyria], be troubled [and angry? Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it]? |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [Disregard that the day is ad]vanced |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [Disregard the (formulation) of the prayer] for today's case, [be it good, be it faulty]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [Disregard that he who touch]es the forehead of the sheep [is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments]. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [Disregard that the oracle query has become jumbled in the mouth of] the haruspex, your servant. |
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' | [x x x x x] ni na-[x x x x x i-ma-aq-qu-tu-u₂] | |
| 2' | [i-duk-ku-u₂ i]-⸢hab⸣-ba-⸢tu⸣-[u₂ ŠA₃-bi ša₂ {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na] | |
| 3' | [LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki]} i-mar-ra-ṣu [i-lam-mi₃-ni IGI-ru IGI-ra ŠE.GA-u₂ ŠE.GA-e] | |
| 4' | [e-zib ša₂ UD-mu] ⸢iš⸣-qa-a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [e-zib ša₂ ik-rib] di-nim UD-mu ⸢NE⸣-[i GIM DUG₃.GA GIM ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
| 6' | [e-zib ša₂ TAG]-⸢it⸣ pu-ut UDU.NITA₂ [TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-šu₂ ar-ša₂-a-ti lab-šu₂] | |
| 7' | [e-zib ša₂ i-na KA] ⸢DUMU⸣—{lu₂}HAL ⸢DUMU⸣—{lu₂}HAL ARAD-⸢ka⸣ [ta-mit up-tar-ri-du] | |
Sources & licences
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