AGS 026 (P238995)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 026 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238995 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [Šamaš, great lord], giv[e me a fi]rm [positive answer to what I am asking you]! |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | [Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who is now inten]t [on sending] words of [his own choo]sing [in the hand of his messenger to NN, king of the ...e]ans, |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [... of] this [month], the month [...]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [May (this query) g]o [to your great divinity, O Šamaš, great lord], and may an oracle be [given as an answer]. |
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 | {[d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ ša₂ a-šal-lu-ka an-na GI].NA a-pal-[an-ni] | |
| 2 | {1}AN.ŠAR₂—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL KUR—AN.ŠAR₂ ša₂ i-na-an-na] dib-ba ša₂ ŠA₃-⸢ba⸣-[šu₂ ub-lam] | |
| 3 | [ina ŠU.2 {lu₂}A—KIN-šu₂ {lu₂}A—KIN-šu₂ a-na {1}x x x x {kur}x x-a].a ana KIN-šu₂-ma ⸢ti⸣-[iṣ-mu-ru-ma] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x x x x ITI] NE-im {iti}[x x x] | |
| 2' | [UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ DU]-ik-ma UR₅.UŠ₂ ⸢li⸣-[tap-pal] | |
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)
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