AGS 022 (P238987)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 022 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238987 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [......] Will he place [......]? |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] Will it be delivered [to him]? |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [Does your great divinity know it? Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can he]ar, hear it? |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case, be it good, be it fa]ulty. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [Disregard that a clean or an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, o]r blocked [the way of the sacrificial sheep]. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'– | [Disregard that an unclean man or woman has come near the place of the extispicy and made it un]clean. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Disregard that an unclean person has performed extisp]icy [in this place]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your great divinity for the performance of the extispicy is defic]ient or faulty. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep] is dressed [in his ordinary soiled garment]s, [has eaten, drunk, or anointed himself with anything unclean, (or) has alte]red or changed [the (ritual) proceedings]. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [Disregard that the oracle query has beco]me jumbled [in the mouth of the haruspex, your servant]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [I ask you, Šamaš, gr]eat [lord, whether ......] |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | [By N]adi[nu and Tabnî]. |
| Edge [1:2] e. 22–e. 22 | (Performed) in Cal[ah]. |
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 x x x x x x] tab [x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x]-an-di i-šak-⸢ka-a⸣-[na] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x] i-man-ni-i | |
| 4' | [DINGIR-ut-ka GAL-ti ZU-e a-mi-ru im-ma-a-ra še]-mu-u₂ i-šem-me₂-e | |
| 5' | [e-zib ša₂ di-in UD NE-i GIM DUG₃-ab GIM ha]-ṭu-u₂ | |
| 6' | [e-zib ša₂ KUG lu-ʾu-u₂ UDU.NITA₂ TAG-MEŠ u₂—lu a-na IGI SISKUR.SISKUR] GIL-MEŠ-ku | |
| 7' | [e-zib ša₂ lu-ʾu-u₂ lu-ʾu-u₂-tu₂ KI MAŠ₂ DIB.DIB-ma u₂]-⸢le⸣-ʾu-u₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib ša₂ i-na KI an-ni-i lu-ʾu-u₂ MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂]-u₂ | |
| 2 | [e-zib ša₂ UDU.NITA₂ DINGIR-ti-ka ša₂ a-na MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂-u₂ LAL]-u₂ ha-ṭu-u₂ | |
| 3 | [e-zib ša₂ TAG-it SAG.KI UDU.NITA₂ TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-šu₂ ar₂-ša₂-a]-⸢ti⸣ lab-šu₂ | |
| 4 | [mim-ma lu-ʾu-u₂ KU₂ NAG ŠEŠ₂-šu₂ ku-un qa-ti BAL]-u₂ uš-pe-lu | |
| 5 | [e-zib ša₂ i-na KA DUMU—{lu₂}HAL DUMU—{lu₂}HAL ARAD-ka ta-mit up]-⸢tar⸣-ri-du | |
| 6 | [lu-u₂ ZI-MEŠ lu-u₂ BAR-MEŠ a-šal-ka {d}UTU EN GAL]-u₂ | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | [ša₂ {1}⸢na⸣-di-[nu u {1}tab-ni-i] | |
| 2 | ina {uru}kal-[ha] | |
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