AGS 156 (P239006)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 156 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239006 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [Be present in this ram], place (in it) [... propitious omens by the oracular command of your great divinity], and [may I see (them)]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [......] faces the [...]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [......] is curled. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......] The 'cap' of the lung is spl[it]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [......] is present. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x šuk]-nam-ma [lu-mur] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x x x x] IGI [(x)] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢ka⸣-pi₂-iṣ [o] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-is [(x)] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ U.SAG MUR ⸢DU₈⸣ | |
| 6' | [x x x x x x x x x] GAR [o] | |
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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