AGS 138 (P336106)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 138 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336106 |
| 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 [0:1] o 11–o 11 | [...... ill] with the 'hand' [of god ......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [......] said [......] |
| Obverse [3:6] o 4'4'–o 6'6' | [......] taboo [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Disregard the (formulation)] of today's case, [be it good, be it faulty]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [Disregard that a clean or] unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, or [blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [Disregard that an uncl]ean man or woman [has come near] the place of the extispicy [and made it unclean]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [Disregard that an unclean person has performed extispicy in] this place. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [Disregard that the ram (offered) to] your [divini]ty for the performance [of the extispicy is deficient or faulty]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep] is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments [......]. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [Disregard that] the or[acle query has become jumbled in the mouth of the haruspex], your [servant]. |
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] i-na ŠU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x]-u₂ ⸢iq-bu⸣-u₂ [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x x x] u₂ qu [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] ⸢ik-kib⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x] x x [x]-MEŠ ⸢u₂⸣-[x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 6' | [x x x x x] ⸢x x x x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib ša₂ di]-in UD-me an-[ni-e GIM DUG₃-ab GIM ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
| 2 | [e-zib ša₂ KUG lu]-ʾu-u₂ SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-MEŠ u₂—[lu a-na IGI SISKUR.SISKUR GIL-MEŠ] | |
| 3 | [e-zib ša₂ lu-ʾu]-u₂ lu-ʾu-tu₂ KI ⸢MAŠ₂⸣ [DIB-MEŠ-ma u₂-le-ʾu-u₂] | |
| 4 | [e-zib ša₂ i-na] KI an-ni-[i lu-ʾu-u₂ MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂-u₂] | |
| 5 | [e-zib ša₂ UDU SISKUR.SISKUR DINGIR]-⸢ti⸣-ka ša₂ a-na MAŠ₂ [MAŠ₂-u₂ LAL-u₂ ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
| 6 | [e-zib ša₂ TAG-it SAG.KI UDU.NITA₂] TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-šu₂ ar-ša₂-a-te lab-[šu₂ x x x x] | |
| 7 | [e-zib ša₂ i-na KA DUMU—{lu₂}HAL DUMU—{lu₂}HAL ARAD]-ka ta-[mit ip-tar-ri-du] | |
Sources & licences
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