SAA 04, 173 (P240344)
Extispicy Query, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 04, 173 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240344 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [Šamaš, great lord], gi[ve me] a firm positive answer [to what I am asking you]! |
| Obverse [1:4] o 22–o 44 | [Should Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, appoint the man whose name is written in this papyrus and placed] before your [great] divinity, [to the po]sition [which is written] in [this papyrus]? |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | May (this query) go [to your great divinity, O Šamaš, great lord], and [may an oracle be given as an answer]. |
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 | {[d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ ša₂ a-šal-lu-ka] an-nam GI.NA ⸢a⸣-[pal-an-ni] | |
| 2 | [LU₂ ša₂ MU-šu₂ i-na ni-ʾa-a-ra an-na-a šaṭ-ru-ma] i-na IGI DINGIR-ti-⸢ka⸣ [GAL-ti GAR-un] | |
| 3 | {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki} a-na pi]-⸢qi₂⸣-tu-tu ša₂ ⸢ina⸣ [ni-ʾa-a-ra an-na-a šaṭ-rat-tu] | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-MEŠ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂] lil-lik-ma [KIN li-tap-pal] | |
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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