AGS 107 (P237797)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 107 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237797 |
| 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 | Should Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, strive and plan? Should he enter his son, Sin-nadin-apli, whose name is written in this papyrus and placed before your great divinity, into the Succession Palace? |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | Is it pleasing to your great divinity? Is it acceptable to your great divinity? Does your great divinity know it? |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77–o 1010 | Is the entering of Sin-nadin-apli, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, whose name is written in this papyrus, into the Succession Palace, decreed and confirmed in a favorable case, by the command of your great divinity, Šamaš, great lord? Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it? |
| Obverse [10:11] o 1111–o 1111 | Disregard the (formulation) of today's case, be it good, be it faulty. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 1212–o 1212 | Disregard that a clean or an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, or blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep. |
| Obverse [12:14] o 1313– | Disregard that an unclean man or woman has come near the place of the extispicy and made it unclean. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | Disregard that an unclean person has performed extispicy in this place. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | Disregard that the ram (offered) to your divinity for the performance of the extispicy is deficient or faulty. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments, has eaten, drunk, or anointed himself with anything unclean, (or) has altered or changed the proceedings. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant, have eaten, drunk, or anointed myself with anything unclean, or have jumbled the oracular query in my mouth. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | I ask you, Šamaš, great lord, whether Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, should enter his son, whose name is written in this papyrus, into the Succession Palace. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | Is it pleasing to your great divinity? Is it acceptable to your great divinity? |
| Reverse [10:13] r 1111–r 1313 | Be present in this ram, place (in it) a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious omens by the oracular command of your great divinity, and may I see (them). |
| Reverse [13:14] r 1414–r 1414 | May (this query) go to your great divinity, O Šamaš, great lord, and may an oracle be given as an answer. |
| Reverse [14:15] r 1515–r 1515 | [... and] the 'well-being' are present. The left of the gall bladder is attached. The left surface of the 'finger' is split. The 'increment' is normal. The lower part is elevated. |
| Reverse [15:17] r 1616–r 1717 | [Ditto] and the base of the middle 'finger' of the lung is 'bound,' a storm will cause a ship without a rudder to drift, but [Šamaš] and Marduk will always see it into a safe mooring. It is favorable in both a favorable and unfavorable case. |
| Reverse [17:18] r 1818–r 1818 | The breast-bone is thick. The coils of the colon are 14 in number. The heart of the r[a]m is normal. |
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-nam GI.NA a-pal-an-ni | |
| 2 | {1}AN.ŠAR₂—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki} li-iṣ-rim lik-pid-ma {1}{d}30—SUM-na—DUMU.UŠ DUMU-šu₂ | |
| 3 | ša₂ MU-šu₂ i-⸢na⸣ ni-a-ri an-na-a šaṭ-ru-ma i-na IGI DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti GAR-un | |
| 4 | a-na E₂—re-du-tu E₂—re-du-tu ⸢lu⸣-še-rib UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti ŠE.GA-i | |
| 5 | pa-an DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti ma-hi-i-ri | |
| 6 | DINGIR-ut-ka GAL-ti ZU-e | |
| 7 | TU-bi ša₂ {1}{d}30—SUM-na—A DUMU-šu₂ ša₂ {1}AN.ŠAR₂—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki} ša₂ MU-šu₂ i-na ni-a-ra | |
| 8 | an-na-a šaṭ-ru a-na E₂—re-du-tu E₂—re-du-tu i-na SILIM-tim ina KA DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti | |
| 9 | {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ qa-bi-i ku-un-i | |
| 10 | IGI-ri IGI-mar še-mu-u₂ ŠE.GA-e | |
| 11 | e-zib ša₂ di-in UD NE-i GIM DUG₃-ab GIM ha-ṭu-u₂ | |
| 12 | e-zib ša₂ KUG lu-ʾu-u₂ SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-tu₂ lu-u₂ a-na IGI SISKUR.SISKUR GIL-MEŠ | |
| 13 | e-zib ša₂ lu-ʾu-u₂ lu-ʾu-u₂-ti KI MAŠ₂ DIB-MEŠ-ma u₂-le-ʾu-u₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | e-zib ša₂ i-na KI NE-i lu-ʾi-i MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂-u₂ | |
| 2 | e-zib ša₂ UDU.NITA₂ DINGIR-ti-ka ša₂ a-na MAŠ₂ MAŠ-u₂ LAL-u₂ ha-ṭu-u₂ | |
| 3 | e-zib ša₂ TAG-it SAG.KI UDU.NITA₂ TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-šu₂ ar₂-šat lab-šu₂ mim-ma lu-ʾu-u₂ | |
| 4 | KU₂ NAG-u₂ ŠEŠ₂-šu₂ ku-un ŠU.2 BAL-u₂ uš-pe-lum | |
| 5 | e-zib ša₂ a-na-ku DUMU—{lu₂}HAL DUMU—{lu₂}HAL ARAD-ka mim-ma lu-ʾu-u₂ KU₂ NAG-u₂ ŠEŠ₂-šu₂ | |
| 6 | u₂—lu ta-mit i-na KA-ia up-tar-ri-du | |
| 7 | lu-u₂ ZI-MEŠ lu-u₂ BAR-MEŠ a-šal-ka {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ | |
| 8 | ki-i {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki} DUMU-šu₂ ša MU-šu₂ | |
| 9 | i-na ni-a-ra an-na-a šaṭ-ru a-na E₂—re-du-u₂-tu E₂—re-du-u₂-tu u₂-še-ri-bu-u₂-ma | |
| 10 | UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti ŠE.GA pa-ni DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti mah-ru | |
| 11 | i-na ŠA₃ UDU.NITA₂ an-ni-i GUB-za-am-ma an-na GI.NA GIŠ.HUR-MEŠ SILIM-MEŠ | |
| 12 | UZU-MEŠ ta-mit SIG₅-MEŠ SILIM-MEŠ ša₂ SILIM-tim ša₂ KA DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti | |
| 13 | šuk-nam-ma lu-mur | |
| 14 | ⸢UGU⸣ DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti {d}UTU EN GAL₂-u₂ lil-lik-ma KIN li-tap-pal | |
| 15 | [BE x]+⸢x⸣ SILIM GAR-MEŠ 150 ZE₂ ṣa-mid SAG EDIN 150 ŠU.SI DU₈ MAŠ₂ SILIM-im KI.TA-tum DU-ik | |
| 16 | [BE KI.MIN] u ŠU.SI—MUR MURUB₄ SUHUŠ-sa₃ KEŠ₂ {giš}MA₂ ba-la {giš}sik-kan-na TU₁₅ uš-qa-la-pa-šim-ma | |
| 17 | {[d}UTU] u {d}AMAR.UTU ina ma-kal-le-e GI.NA iš-te-ni-u₂-šu₂ ina SILIM-tim u NU SILIM-tim SILIM-at₂ | |
| 18 | BE GAG.⸢ZAG⸣.GA e-bi ŠA₃.NIGIN 14 ŠA₃ ⸢UDU.NITA₂⸣ SILIM-im | |
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