PRT 039 (P240300)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 039 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240300 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1'1'–o 2'2' | [... will they at]tack (him), and [kill (and) plunder (him)]? [Will Esarhaddon], king of Assyria, be troubled and [angry]? |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear], hear it? Does your great divinity [know it]? |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [Disregard that an angry man, or one in dis]tress, [spoke] angrily the words of his report. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [Disregard that enemies sit in am]bush [on his right and left]. |
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' | [i-ma]-⸢qu-tu-u₂ i⸣-[duk-ku-u₂ i-hab-ba-tu-u₂] | |
| 2' | [ŠA₃-bi ša₂ {1}AN.ŠAR₂—ŠEŠ—SUM-na] LUGAL KUR—AN.ŠAR₂ i-mar-ra-ṣu [i-lam-mi₃-ni] | |
| 3' | [IGI-ru IGI-ra ŠE.GA]-u₂ ŠE-e DINGIR-ut-ka GAL-[ti ZU-e] | |
| 4' | [e-zib ša₂ šab-su ra-aʾ-bu uš]-šu₂-šu₂ a-mat ṭe₃-mi-šu₂ ir-⸢ʾu-bu⸣ [id-bu-bu] | |
| 5' | [e-zib ša₂ KUR₂ 15-šu₂ u 150-šu₂ ina DAG-MEŠ] ⸢tah₂⸣-sa-a-⸢ti⸣ [aš₂-bu-ma] | |
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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