SAA 08, 315 (P238049)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 08, 315 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238049 |
| 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/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [......] ... [......] ... [......] quakes [...]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [If Adad] thunders [......] |
| Obverse [6:13] o 77– | [......] to my land [......] ... [......] ... |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [......] of [......]. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | [If the earth] quakes [at night]: worry for the land, variant: aban[doning of the land. An earth]quake portends re[volt]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From Zakir. |
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⸣ NAM ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 5 | [x x x] i-ru-ub ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x] ŠU₂ | |
| 6 | 1 {d}IM GU₃]-šu₂ id-di [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 7 | [x x x x] ⸢ana⸣ KUR-ia ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ | |
| 8 | [x x x x] ⸢nu⸣ [x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 9 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ša₂ um-⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x] ka mar [x x x] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 11 | [x x x x x x] ina MU BI [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x] ša₂ {d}[x x x] | |
| 2 | 1 KI ina MI] i-nu-uš na-zaq KUR na-[de-e KUR] | |
| 3 | [ri-i]-bu a-na na-bal-[kat-ti] | |
| 4 | ša₂ {1}za-⸢kir⸣ | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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