SAA 04, 249 (P239471)
Extispicy Query, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 249 |
|---|---|
| ID | P239471 |
| 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 [3:5] o 4'4'– | [Disreg]ard the (formulation) of today's case, [be it good, be it faulty]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Disregard that] an unclean man or woma[n has come near the place of the extispicy and made it unclean]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [Disregard that] the ram (offered) to [your] divinity [for the performance of the extispicy is deficient or faulty]. |
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 x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x x]-ma i-[x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x] [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [e]-⸢zib⸣ ša₂ di-in UD NE-[i GIM DUG₃-ab GIM ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib] ša₂ lu-ʾu-u₂ lu-[ʾu-u₂-tu₂ KI MAŠ₂ DIB-MEŠ-ma u₂-le-ʾu-u₂] | |
| 2 | [e-zib ša₂] UDU.NITA₂ DINGIR-ti-[ka ša₂ a-na MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂-u₂ LAL-u₂ ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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