AGS 140 (P336108)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 140 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336108 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [Disregard that ...] in the heart of the army [...]. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [Disregard that ...] and the dead [...]. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4'4'– | [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case], be it good, [be it faulty]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Disregard that a clean or an unclean person] has touched [the sacri]ficial sheep, or [blocked] the [way of the sacrificial sheep]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [Disregard that an unclean man or woman] has come near the place of the extispicy and [made it unclean]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your great divinity for the] performance [of the extispicy] is deficient [or faulty]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep] is dressed [in his ordinary] soiled [garments]. |
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 x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [e-zib ša₂ x x x x] ⸢a-na⸣ ŠA₃-bi {⸢lu₂}ERIM⸣-[MEŠ x x x] | |
| 3' | [e-zib ša₂ x x x x] u₃ mi-ti ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 4' | [e-zib ša₂ di-in UD-mi an-ni]-i GIM DUG₃-ab [GIM ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib ša₂ KUG lu-ʾu-u₂ SISKUR].⸢SISKUR⸣ TAG-tu₂ lu-u₂ a-na pa-[an SISKUR.SISKUR GIL-MEŠ] | |
| 2 | [e-zib ša₂ lu-ʾu-u₂ lu-ʾu-u₂-tu a]-⸢šar⸣ MAŠ₂ DIB-MEŠ-qu-ma ⸢u₂⸣-[le-ʾu-u₂] | |
| 3 | [e-zib ša₂ UDU.NITA₂ DINGIR-ti-ka ša₂ a-na MAŠ₂] MAŠ₂-u₂ LAL-u₂ [ha-ṭu-u₂] | |
| 4 | [e-zib ša₂ TAG-it pu-ut UDU.NITA₂ TUG₂ gi-ne₂-e-šu₂] ar-šat ⸢lab⸣-[šu₂] | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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