AGS 157 (P336118)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 157 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336118 |
| 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 [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [Let them be taken out and put a]side! |
| Reverse [1:6] r 2'2'–r 6'6' | [I ask you, Šamaš, great lord, whether, (should) Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, appoint the] man [whose name is written in this papyrus and placed] be[fore your great divinity], to the of[fice that is written in] this [same papyrus], |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | [he will he plan something b]ad, ev[il ......] |
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 x x x lu-u₂ ZI-MEŠ] | |
| 2' | [lu-u₂] ⸢BAR⸣-[MEŠ a-šal-ka {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂] | |
| 3' | [ki-i a]-me-⸢lu⸣ [ša₂ MU-šu₂ i-na ni-ʾa-ri an-na-a] | |
| 4' | [šaṭ-ru-ma] i-na [IGI DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti GAR-un {1}{d}aš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na] | |
| 5' | [LUGAL KUR—aš-šur] a-na pi-[qit-tu-u₂-ti ša₂ i-na ŠA₃] | |
| 6' | [ni-ʾa-ri-ma] ⸢an⸣-na-[a šaṭ-rat-tu₂ i-pa-qi-du-šu₂-ma a-ma-tu₂] | |
| 7' | [la ṭa-ab-tu₂ la] de-[iq-tu x x x x x x x x x] | |
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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