PRT 002 (P240286)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 002 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240286 |
| 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 [1:5] o 2'2'– | [Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant, am dressed in my ordinary soiled garments, have eaten, drunk (or) anointed myself with anythi]ng unclean, [have changed or altered the proceedings, or (that) the oracle query] has become jumbled or impaired [in] my mouth. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [I ask you, Šamaš, great lord, whether from this day, the ... day of t]his [month], the month Adar (XII) [of this year, to the ...th day of the month ... of the] coming [year], |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | [Kaštaritu, city lord of Kar]kaššî [...] |
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⸣ | |
| 2' | [e-zib ša₂ a-na-ku DUMU—{lu₂}HAL DUMU—{lu₂}HAL ARAD-ka TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-a ar₂-šat lab-ša₂-ku mim]-⸢ma⸣ lu-ʾu-u₂ | |
| 3' | [KU₂ NAG-u₂ ŠEŠ₂-šu₂ ku-un qa-ti BAL-u₂ uš-pe-lu u₂—lu ta-mit i-na] ⸢KA⸣-ia₂ ip-tar-ri-du LAL-MEŠ-u₂ | |
| 4' | [lu-u₂ ZI-MEŠ lu-u₂ BAR-MEŠ an-na GI.NA] a-pal-an-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [a-šal-ka {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ ki-i TA UD x-KAM₂ ša₂ ITI] ⸢an⸣-ni-i {iti}ŠE.KIN.KUD | |
| 2 | [ša₂ MU.AN.NA an-ni-ti EN UD x-KAM₂ ša₂ {iti}x ša₂ MU.AN].⸢NA⸣ e-rib-⸢ti⸣ | |
| 3 | [lu-u₂ {1}ka-aš₂-ta-ri-ti EN—URU EN—URU ša₂ {uru}kar]—kaš-ši-⸢i⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x x⸣ [x] | |
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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