PRT 080 (P237702)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 080 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237702 |
| 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 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] to [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case, be it] good, be it faulty, (and that) a clean or unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'– | [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your divinity] for the performance of the extispicy is deficient or faulty. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep] is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments, [or has touched] the (libation) beer, the maṣhatu flour, [the water, the pot, or the fire]. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | [Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant, am] dressed in my ordinary soiled garments, [have eaten, drunk, or anointed myself with anything unclean], (or) ju[mbled] the oracle query in my mouth. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [Let them be taken out and put aside! Give me] a firm positive 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' | [x x x x x x x x x x i]-⸢na⸣ UGU ⸢GA⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [e-zib ša₂ di-in UD-mu NE-i GIM DUG₃]-⸢ab⸣ GIM LAL-u KUG lu-ʾu-u UDU.NITA₂ TAG-[MEŠ] | |
| 3' | [e-zib ša₂ UDU.NITA₂ DINGIR-ti]-⸢ka⸣ ša₂ ana MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂-u₂ LAL-u₂ LAL-[u₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib ša₂ TAG-it SAG.KI UDU.NITA₂] ⸢TUG₂⸣ gi-ne₂-e-šu₂ ar₂-ša₂-tu₂ lab-šu₂ mi-ih-ha {zid₂}⸢MAD⸣.[GA₂ A-MEŠ haṣ-bu u IZI TAG-MEŠ] | |
| 2 | [e-zib ša₂ a-na-ku DUMU—{lu₂}HAL DUMU—{lu₂}HAL ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-a ar₂-ša₂-tu₂ lab-[ša₂-ku mim-ma lu-ʾu-u₂] | |
| 3 | [KU₂ NAG-u₂ ŠEŠ₂-šu₂ u₂—lu] ⸢ta⸣-mit ina KA-ia ⸢up⸣-[tar-ri-du] | |
| 4 | [lu-u₂ ZI-MEŠ lu-u₂ BAR-MEŠ] an-na ⸢GI⸣.[NA a-pal-an-ni] | |
Sources & licences
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