SAA 04, 295 (P238997)
Extispicy Report, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 295 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238997 |
| 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' | [...] flesh [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [The 'out]side' [rides] upon the 'c[ap']. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [The breast]-bone [is split] in the center. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [There are ...] unfavorable omens. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | Unfavorable. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [The en]voys of Assurbanipal, king of [Assyria], |
| Obverse [6:9] o 7'7'–o 9'9' | your [cre]ature, who [wen]t to the Ci[mmerians] and [...] |
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] | |
| 2' | [x x x] UZU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | [BE SA]-ti UGU U.[SAG MUR U₅] | |
| 4' | [BE GAG].⸢ZAG⸣.GA BAR-ma [DU₈] | |
| 5' | [x] TAG-MEŠ ina [ŠA₃-bi] | |
| 6' | NU DUG₃.⸢GA⸣ [o] | |
| 7' | {[lu₂}DUMU]-MEŠ—KIN-MEŠ {[lu₂}DUMU]-MEŠ—KIN-MEŠ ša₂ {1}AN.ŠAR₂—DU₃—A MAN ⸢KUR⸣—[AN.ŠAR₂] | |
| 8' | [DU₃-ut] ŠU-ka ša₂ a-na {lu₂}⸢gi⸣-[mir-ra-a.a] | |
| 9' | [il]-⸢li⸣-ku-ma i-ku-⸢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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