SAA 08, 300 (P240140)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 08, 300 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240140 |
| 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/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [......] eclipse (predicting) deaths; deaths ... [......] Venus until [......]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 1414–o 1515 | [......] Adad will devastate [......]. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 1616– | [If] there is an eclipse in Sivan (III) on the 14th day: an [effective] kin[g who is famous will die, and his son, who] was not named for kingship, will seize the throne, and [there will be] hos[tility, variant: there will be deaths]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [If] there is an eclipse [in S]ivan (III) from the 1st to the 30th day: it is an ec[lipse of the king of Akkad; a peak flood] will occur, and Adad will devastate the land; the harvest of the lan[d will not prosper; a large army will fall]. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | If you perform (the observation) for the well-being of the king, the city, and its people, [well-being; there will be a decrease of barley in] ..., variant: in the land. |
| Reverse [4:10] r 55–r 1010 | [If] there is an eclipse [in Si]van (III) on the 14th day, and the god, in his eclipse, [becomes dark on the] side [east above, and] clears [on the side west] below, the north wind (blows, and the eclipse) passes the evening watch [and 'touches' the middle] watch. [You observe his eclipse], and you keep the north wind in mind: thereby [a prediction is given for] Ur and the king of U[r: the king of] Ur will experience famine; deaths will become numerous; the [son of] king of Ur [will wrong him], but Šamaš will catch the son who wronged his father so that [he will die] in the mourning place of [his] father. [A son of the king who] was (not) named for [king]ship will seize the throne. |
| Reverse [10:11] r 1111–r 1111 | [If (the moon)] becomes dark [in the region of Sa]gittarius: decision for Mutabal and Babyl[on]. |
| Reverse [11:12] r 1212–r 1212 | [If in its eclipse] Jupiter stands there: well-being for the king; a famous noble will die in his stead. |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | [An eclipse in the ev]ening watch portends deaths. |
| Reverse [13:14] r 1414–r 1414 | [The term] of (an eclipse in) the evening watch is 3 months and 10 days. |
| Reverse [14:15] r 1515–r 1515 | [The evening watch] means Akkad; Sivan (III) means the Westland; the 14th day means Elam; [......] the Westland. |
| Right [1:2] r.e. 1717–r.e. 1717 | [......] Zakir. |
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⸣-ni AN.MI UŠ₂-ME UŠ₂-ME ⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x] {⸢mul⸣}dil-bat EN ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 14 | [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 15 | [x x x {d]}⸢IM⸣ RA-⸢iṣ x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 16 | 1 ina {iti]}⸢SIG₄⸣ UD 14-KAM₂ AN.MI GAR ⸢LUGAL⸣ [ga-mi₃-ru ša MU TUK-u₂ UŠ₂-ma] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 17 | [DUMU-šu₂ ša₂ ana] ⸢NAM⸣.LUGAL la zak-ru AŠ.TE DIB-ma {mi₂}[KUR₂ GAL₂ [UŠ₂-ME GAL₂-MEŠ] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 ina] {⸢iti⸣}SIG₄ TA UD 01-KAM₂ EN UD 30-KAM AN.MI GAR ⸢AN⸣.[MI LUGAL URI{ki]} | |
| 2 | [A.KAL x].GAL₂ GAL₂-ma {d}IM KUR RA BURU₁₄ ⸢KUR⸣ [NU SI.SA₂ ERIM GAL] | |
| 3 | [ŠUB-ut] ⸢BE⸣-ma ana DI-mu LUGAL URU u UN-ME-šu₂ DU₃-ma [DI nu-šur-re-e ŠE] | |
| 4 | [ina] ⸢BUR₂⸣-ti ina KUR [GAL₂-ši] | |
| 5 | 1 ina {iti]}⸢SIG₄⸣ UD 14-KAM₂ AN.MI GAR-ma DINGIR ina |KA×MI|šu₂ A₂ {⸢im⸣}[KUR.RA AN.TA |KA×MI|ma] | |
| 6 | [A₂ {im}MAR.TU] KI.TA iz-ki {im}SI EN.NUN—AN.USAN₂ ZI ana ⸢EN.NUN⸣—[MURUB₄.BA TAG-ut] | |
| 7 | |KA×MI|šu₂ IGI]-⸢ma⸣ {im}SI ina ŠU.2-ka tu-kal ina ŠA₃ ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki} u ⸢LUGAL ŠEŠ⸣.[UNUG{ki} EŠ.BAR SUM-in] | |
| 8 | [LUGAL ŠEŠ].⸢UNUG⸣{ki} SU.KU₂ IGI UŠ₂-ME i-man-du LUGAL ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki} [DUMU-šu₂] | |
| 9 | [i-ha-bil-šu₂]-ma DUMU ha-bil AD-šu₂ {d}UTU KUR-su-ma ina KI.HUL ⸢AD⸣-[šu₂ UŠ₂] | |
| 10 | [DUMU—LUGAL [DUMU—LUGAL ša₂ ana] ⸢LUGAL⸣-ti <la> zak-ru AŠ.TE DIB-⸢bat⸣ | |
| 11 | 1 ina KI {mul]}PA.BIL.SAG a-dir EŠ.BAR mu-ta-bal{ki} u KA₂.DINGIR.⸢RA⸣{[ki]} | |
| 12 | [x x x] {d}SAG.ME.GAR GUB ana LUGAL DI-mu ku-mi-šu₂ IDIM SIG-u₂ UŠ₂ | |
| 13 | [AN.MI EN].⸢NUN⸣—AN.USAN₂ a-na UŠ₂-ME | |
| 14 | [UD.DUG₄.GA] ⸢EN⸣.NUN—AN.USAN₂ a-na 03 ITI 10 UD-mu | |
| 15 | [EN.NUN—AN.USAN₂] KUR—URI{ki} {iti}SIG₄ KUR—MAR{ki} UD 14-KAM₂ {kur}NIM | |
| r.e. | ||
| 16 | [x x x x x x x x x] KUR—MAR{ki} | |
| 17 | [x x x x x x x x x x]-tum {1}za-kir | |
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