AGS 148 (P238993)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 148 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238993 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [... Is it decreed and confirmed in a favorable ca]se, [by the command of your great divinity], Šamaš, great lord? [Will he who can see, see it]? Will he who can hear, hear it? |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case, be it good], be it faulty. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [Disregard that a clean or an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, or] blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'– | [Disregard that an unclean man or woman has come near the place of the extispicy and] made it unclean. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Disregard that an unclean person has perform]ed [extispicy in this place]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your great divinity for the performance of the exti]spicy is deficient 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 [garments, has eaten, drunk, or anointed himself with anything unclean], (or) has altered, added to, or changed [the pro]ceedings. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | [Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant, am dressed in] my ordinary soiled [garments, have] seen [fear and terror at night ...] |
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 x x ina SILIM]-⸢tim⸣ | |
| 2' | [ina KA DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti {d]}UTU EN GAL-u₂ | |
| 3' | [qa-bi-i ku-un-i a-mi-ru IGI]-⸢mar⸣ še-mu-u₂ ŠE.GA-e | |
| 4' | [e-zib ša₂ di-in UD-mu an-ni-i ki-i DUG₃.GA] ki-i ha-ṭu-u₂ | |
| 5' | [e-zib ša₂ KUG lu-ʾu-u₂ UDU SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-MEŠ u₂—lu] ana IGI SISKUR.SISKUR GIL | |
| 6' | [e-zib ša₂ lu-ʾu-u₂ lu-ʾu-u₂-tu₂ KI MAŠ₂ DIB-MEŠ] u₂-le-ʾu-u₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib ša₂ ina KI an-ni-i lu-ʾu-u₂ MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂]-u₂ | |
| 2 | [e-zib ša₂ UDU.NITA₂ DINGIR-ti-ka ša₂ ana MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂]-u₂ LAL-u₂ ha-ṭu-u₂ | |
| 3 | [e-zib ša₂ TAG-it SAG.KI UDU.NITA₂ TUG₂ gi-ne₂]-e-šu₂ ar₂-šat lab-šu₂ | |
| 4 | [mim-ma lu-ʾu-u₂ KU₂ NAG-u₂ ŠEŠ₂-šu₂ ku-un ŠU].2 BAL-u₂ DIRI-ru uš-pel-lu | |
| 5 | [e-zib ša₂ a-na-ku DUMU—{lu₂}HAL DUMU—{lu₂}HAL ARAD-ka TUG₂] ⸢gi⸣-ne₂-e-a ar₂-šat | |
| 6 | [lab-ša₂-ku ina MI LUH-tu pi-rit-ti] ⸢IGI⸣-ru | |
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