SAA 04, 342 (P238072)
Extispicy Report, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 342 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238072 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Extispicy Report |
| 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 [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | [... the scepter, thr]one and rei[gn of the king will be] long. |
| Obverse [2:8] o 3'3'– | [If] in the 'pala[ce' of the 'finger'] a long design is drawn straight and the left of the 'finger' is split: Illil will remove from the Ekur the scepter, throne and reign of the king. |
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 {giš}PA {giš]}⸢GU⸣.ZA | |
| 2' | u₃ ⸢BALA⸣-[e LUGAL] ⸢GID₂⸣.DA-ik | |
| 3' | [BE] i-na E₂.⸢GAL⸣ [ŠU.SI GIŠ.HUR] a-ri-ik-tum | |
| 4' | i-ša₂-riš eṣ-ret-ma 150 ŠU.SI DU₈ | |
| 5' | {d}EN.LIL₂ {giš}PA {giš}GU.ZA | |
| 6' | u₃ BALA-u₂ ša₂ LUGAL | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ul-tu E₂.KUR u₂-še-ṣa-a | |
Sources & licences
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