AGS 137 (P238998)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 137 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238998 |
| 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 1'1'–o 1'1' | [......] will he [ma]ke [common cause with his enemy? Does your great divinity know (it)]? |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | Is it [decr]eed and confirmed [in a favorable case, 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 [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [Disregard that ......] death (may) occur [...]. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'– | [Disregard that ......] they (may) experience [... trou]ble and hardships on the journey. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case, be it good], be it faulty. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [Disregard that a clean or unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, or] blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [Disregard that an unclean man or woman has come near the place of the extispicy] and made it unclean. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [Disregard that an unclean person] has performed extispicy [in this place]. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your divinity for the performance of the extispicy is] deficient or faulty. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments], has eaten, drunk, [or anointed himself with any]thing unclean, [(or) has altered or] changed [the proceedings]. |
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 i-šak]-⸢ka⸣-a-na [DINGIR-ut-ka GAL-ti ZU-e i-na SILIM-tim] | |
| 2' | [i-na KA DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ qa-bi]-i ku-un ⸢IGI-ru IGI⸣-[ra ŠE-u₂ ŠE-e] | |
| 3' | [e-zib ša₂ x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ UŠ₂ GAL₂-MEŠ [x x x] | |
| 4' | [e-zib ša₂ x x x x x x x x x] ⸢NIG₂⸣.GIG ⸢ma⸣-na-ah-ti ša₂ KASKAL.2 IGI-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib ša₂ di-in UD-me NE-i GIM DUG₃.GA] ⸢GIM⸣ ha-ṭu-u₂ | |
| 2 | [e-zib ša₂ KUG lu-ʾu-u₂ SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-MEŠ u₂—lu a-na] ⸢IGI⸣ SISKUR.SISKUR GIL-MEŠ-ku | |
| 3 | [e-zib ša₂ lu-ʾu-u₂ lu-ʾu-u₂-tu KI MAŠ₂ DIB.DIB]-⸢ma⸣ u₂-le-ʾu-u₂ | |
| 4 | [e-zib ša₂ i-na KI an-ni-i lu-ʾu-u₂] ⸢MAŠ₂⸣ MAŠ₂-u₂ | |
| 5 | [e-zib ša₂ UDU.NITA₂ DINGIR-ti-ka ša₂ a-na MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂-u₂] ⸢LAL⸣-u₂ ha-ṭu-u₂ | |
| 6 | [e-zib ša₂ TAG-it SAG.KI UDU.NITA₂ TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-šu₂ ar₂-ša₂-ti lab-šu₂ mim]-⸢ma⸣ lu-ʾu-u₂ KU₂ NAG | |
| 7 | [ŠEŠ₂-šu₂ ku-un qa-ti BAL-u₂ uš]-pe-[lu] | |
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