SAA 04, 343 (P238939)
Extispicy Report, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 343 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238939 |
| 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 upper [part ......] |
| Obverse [1:4] o 2'2'–o 4'4' | 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 [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | From the mouth [......]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | judgment [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | true [......] |
| Reverse [2:4] r 3'3'–r 4'4' | is not unfavorable [......] |
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 AN.⸢TA⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | BE ina bi-⸢rit⸣ [U.SAG MUR u MU.SAG MUR] | |
| 3' | UZU mun-[dur x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | {d}UTU ina MU₂-[šu₂ x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | ša₂ KA ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | DI.⸢KUD⸣ [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | GI.NA u₂-[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | ul TAG [x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | lu [x x x x x x x x x] | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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