PRT 054 (P240405)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 054 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240405 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | I ask [you, Šamaš, great lord, whether, (should) Esarhaddon], king of Ass[yria, appoint the man whose name is written in this papyrus and placed before your great divinity], to the [position of his choosing], |
| Reverse [3:5] r 4'4'–r 5'5' | he will instigate [or cause others to instigate] an insurrection and rebellion [against Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, ......]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x] a-šal-[ka {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ GAL-u₂ ki-i {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na] | |
| 2' | LUGAL KUR—aš-⸢šur⸣{[ki} LU₂ ša₂ MU-šu₂ i-na ni-a-ra an-ni-i šaṭ-ru i-na IGI DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti GAR-un] | |
| 3' | a-na UGU-⸢hi⸣ [pi-qit-ti KI ŠA₃-šu₂ ub-lam ip-taq-du-uš x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | si-hu HI.⸢GAR⸣ [a-na UGU {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na] [LUGAL KUR—aš-šur{ki]} | |
| 5' | ⸢ip⸣-pu-⸢šu₂⸣-[u₂ u₂-še-pi-šu₂] | |
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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