SAA 04, 072 (P239273)
Extispicy Query, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 072 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239273 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Extispicy Query |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | will they, [as long as they are in the district of ...], march about [wherever they wish]? |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'– | [Will they attain their objective], will they re[turn aliv]e [from that (expedition), and set foot on Assyrian soil]? |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [Does yo]ur gre[at divinity know it? Is it decreed and confirmed in a favorable case, by the com]mand of your great divinity, [Šamaš, great lord]? Will he who can see, [see it? Will he who can hear, hear it]? |
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] ši ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x x x DU].⸢DU⸣-MEŠ-ku-[u₂ x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x bal-ṭu-us-su]-⸢un⸣ GUR-[MEŠ-ne₂-e mi-ṣir KUR—aš-šur] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [i-kab-ba-su-u₂ DINGIR-ut]-⸢ka GAL⸣-[ti ZU-e] | |
| 2 | [i-na SILIM-tim i-na] ⸢KA⸣ DINGIR-ti-ka ⸢GAL⸣-[ti {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂] | |
| 3 | [qa-bi-i ku-un-i] IGI-ri [IGI-ra ŠE-u₂ ŠE-e 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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