AGS 159 (P336120)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | AGS 159 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336120 |
| 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 1'1'–o 1'1' | [Disregard that a clean or unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep or] blocked [the way of the sacrific]ial sheep. |
| Obverse [1:3] o 2'2'– | [Disregard that an unclean man or woman has come near the place of the extispicy] and made it unclean. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [Disregard that an] unclean person has performed extispicy [in this place]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your divinity for the performance of the extispicy] is deficient or faulty. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep is dressed in his ordina]ry soil[ed garment]. |
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' | [e-zib ša₂ KUG lu-ʾu-u₂ UDU SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-MEŠ u₂—lu a-na IGI SISKUR].⸢SISKUR⸣ GIL-MEŠ | |
| 2' | [e-zib ša₂ lu-ʾu-u₂ lu-ʾu-u₂-tu KI MAŠ₂ DIB-MEŠ]-ma u₂-le-ʾu-u₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [e-zib ša₂ i-na KI an-ni-i lu-ʾu]-⸢u₂⸣ MAŠ₂ ⸢MAŠ₂⸣-[u₂] | |
| 2 | [e-zib ša₂ UDU.NITA₂ DINGIR-ti-ka ša₂ a-na MAŠ₂ MAŠ₂]-u₂ LAL-u₂ ⸢ha⸣-[ṭu-u₂] | |
| 3 | [e-zib ša₂ TAG-it pu-ut UDU.NITA₂ TUG₂ gi-ne₂]-⸢e⸣-[šu₂] ⸢ar⸣-ša₂-a-[ti lab-šu₂] | |
Sources & licences
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