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PRT 060 (P240374)

Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationPRT 060
IDP240374
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreDivination
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa04 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1'(whether) they will capture [......],
Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3'[plot t]o kill [Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, and Assurbani]pal, the crown prince [of the Succession Palace],
Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4'[(whether) they will ... over]turn, over[throw ......],
Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5'[(whether) he will ob]ey, or [set out on disobedience],
Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6'[(whether) ...] will oc[cur to] him [......]?

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
r
1'[x x x x i]-ṣab-⸢ba-tu⸣ [x x x x x x x x x]
2'[x x x x i-na] ⸢UGU⸣ da-a-ka [ša₂ {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur]
3'[u₃ {1}{d}aš-šur—DU₃]—DUMU.UŠ DUMU—⸢LUGAL⸣ DUMU—⸢LUGAL⸣ [ša₂ E₂—re-du-u₂-ti E₂—re-du-u₂-ti i-dab-bu-bu]
4'[x x x i-sak]-ki-pu u₂-šam-[ha-ṣu x x x x x x x x x]
5'[x x x x i]-⸢šem⸣-mu-u₂ lu-u₂ [pa-ni-šu a-na la ša₂-me-e i-šak-ka-nu]
6'[x x x i-na ŠA₃]-⸢bi⸣-šu₂ i-ma-[x x x x x x x x x x]

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