AGS 040 (P238601)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 040 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238601 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [...... I ask you, Šamaš], great lord, [whether Esarhaddon, ki]ng of Assyria, should [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...... Hu]buškia [...] |
| Reverse [4:6] r 5'5'–r 6'6' | [......] the city Šarru-[...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x a-šal-ka {d}UTU] EN GAL-u₂ [ki-i] | |
| 2' | {1}AN.ŠAR₂—ŠEŠ—SUM-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR—AN.ŠAR₂ li-[x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x {kur}hu]-bu-uš-ki-i [x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ma [x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ {uru}MAN-[x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x]-ra-a [x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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