SAA 04, 311 (P239018)
Extispicy Report, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 311 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239018 |
| 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' | [...] The 'strength' is over[turned ....] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] is atrophied. The base of the mid[dle] surface of the 'finger' [...]. |
| Obverse [2:5] o 3'3'– | [The brea]st-bone is trimmed on the right and on the left. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | There are [... unfavo]rable omens. |
| Reverse [1:4] r 22–r 44 | [The man whose name is written in this] tablet and [placed] before your [great] divinity [...] |
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] BE KALAG ⸢BAL⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x x x x] KAR SUHUŠ EDIN U ⸢MURUB₄⸣ [x x x] | |
| 3' | [BE GAG].⸢ZAG⸣.GA 15 u 150 | |
| 4' | [o] ka-ṣiṣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x] ⸢TAG⸣-MEŠ ina ŠA₃-bi | |
| 2 | [LU₂ ša₂ MU-šu₂ ina] ni-ib-zi | |
| 3 | [an-na-a šaṭ-ru]-ma ina IGI DINGIR-ti-ka | |
| 4 | [GAL-ti GAR] ⸢x 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)
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