PRT 059 (P240235)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 059 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240235 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3' | [... should he take the hand of his god, or the h]and of his goddess, or [the hand of his city god, or the h]and of a god of heaven, or [the 'hand' of a god of earth], |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'–o 5'5' | should he pay [attention, (and) frequent] the holy places of [his] go[ds, (so that) the wrath of] god and goddess [may not befall him]? |
| Obverse [5:7] o 6'6'–o 7'7' | Is it decr[eed] and confirmed [by the command of] your great divinity, [Šamaš, great lord]? Will he who can see, see it? [Will he who can hear, hear it]? |
| Obverse [7:9] o 8'8'– | Disregard the (formulation) of today's case, be it good, [be it faulty]. |
| Bottom [0:1] b.e. 9'b.e. 9'–b.e. 9'b.e. 9' | The base of the 'path' is curled [...]. |
| Bottom [1:3] b.e. 10'10'– | [... in the] left of the gall bladder [...]. |
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⸣ lu-⸢u₂⸣ [qa-at DINGIR-šu₂] | |
| 2' | [lu-u₂] ⸢qa⸣-at {d}15-šu₂ lu-⸢u₂⸣ [qa-at DINGIR URU-šu₂] | |
| 3' | [lu-u₂] ⸢qa⸣-at DINGIR AN-e lu-⸢u₂⸣ [qa-at DINGIR KI.TIM] | |
| 4' | [TI-ma x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ lid-di aš₂-rat ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ-šu₂ liš-te-ʾi] | |
| 5' | [šib-sat] DINGIR u₃ {d}iš-tar a-⸢na⸣ [ša₂-a-šu₂ la TE-he-e] | |
| 6' | [i-na KA DINGIR]-ti-ka GAL-ti {d}[UTU EN GAL-u₂] | |
| 7' | qa-[bi-i] ku-un IGI-[ru] IGI-⸢ru⸣ [ŠE-u₂ ŠE-e] | |
| 8' | e-zib ša₂ di-in UD NE-i GIM DUG₃-ab [GIM ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
| b.e. | ||
| 9' | BE SUHUŠ GIR₂ ka-pi₂-iṣ₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 10' | [BE ina] 150 ZE₂ [x x 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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