SAA 04, 307 (P238755)
Extispicy Report, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 307 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238755 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | The to[p ......]. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | If the l[eft] fissure [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | is not visible: [...]. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | The 'finger' and 'increment' are no[rma]l. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 5'5'–o 6'6' | [If the front] of the atrophied part is effaced [...]: taking booty. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | The base of the middle 'finger' of the lung is 'loose.' |
| Obverse [7:9] o 8'8'–o 9'9' | If the left side of the 'cap' grows a 'finger': divine compassion for the man. |
| Obverse [9:11] o 10'10'–o 11'11' | If between the 'cap' of the lung and the 'lift of the head' of the lung a piece of flesh is ...: the sun in its rising. |
| Obverse [11:13] o 12'12'–o 13'13' | [...]... for a headband |
| Obverse [13:15] o 14'14'– | (14') (Break) |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | Should Assurbanipal, [ki]ng of Assyria, your creature, appoint [the man whose na]me is written in [th]is oblong tablet and placed before [your gre]at divinity, to the priesthood of Sin? |
| Reverse [5:10] r 66–r 1010 | If he appoints him, is it pleasing to your great divinity? Is it acceptable to your great divinity? Is it pleasing to the great lord, Sin? Is it acceptable to the great lord, Sin? |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | Favorable. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | Concerning (the appointment of) Urda-[...]. |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | Preformed concerning [... of] Sin. |
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' | BE ⸢SAG⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | BE DU₈ 150 [x x x x x] | |
| 3' | NU IGI-mar [x x x x] | |
| 4' | BE ŠU.SI u MAŠ₂ ⸢šal-mu⸣ | |
| 5' | [BE IGI] KAR-tim pa-šiṭ | |
| 6' | [x x] E₃-u₂ šil-lat | |
| 7' | BE U—MUR MURUB₄ SUHUŠ-sa₃ BAR | |
| 8' | BE 150 U.SAG ŠU.SI DU₃-nu | |
| 9' | ta-a.a-rat DINGIR ana LU₂ | |
| 10' | BE ina bi-rit U.SAG MUR u MU.SAG MUR | |
| 11' | UZU mun-dur {d}UTU ina MU₂-šu₂ | |
| 12' | [x]-nun-ma ana ku-lu-lu | |
| 13' | [x x] uš LUGAL x KAR ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 14' | [x x x] UD ša₂-lim [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [LU₂ ša₂] ⸢MU⸣-šu₂ ina IM.GID₂.[DA] | |
| 2 | [an]-⸢na⸣-a šaṭ-ru-ma IGI DINGIR-ti-[ka] | |
| 3 | ⸢GAL⸣-ti GAR-nu₃ {1}AN.ŠAR₂—DU₃—A | |
| 4 | MAN KUR—aš-šur DU₃-ut ŠU.2-ka | |
| 5 | a-na {lu₂}SANGA-u₂-tu ša₂ {d}30 | |
| 6 | lip-qid-su GIM ip-te-eq-du-uš | |
| 7 | UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti DUG₃.GA-i | |
| 8 | IGI DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti ma-hi-ri | |
| 9 | UGU {d}30 EN GAL-i DUG₃.GA-i | |
| 10 | IGI {d}30 EN GAL-i ma-hi-ri | |
| 11 | DUG₃.GA | |
| 12 | ana UGU {1}ARAD—{d}⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 13 | ana ⸢UGU x⸣+[x x] {⸢d}30 [DU₃-eš] | |
Sources & licences
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