PRT 048 (P336345)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 048 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336345 |
| 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 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Šam[aš, great lord, give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you]! |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | Will the man [whose name is written in this papyrus and placed] before [your great divinity ...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [......] to Esarh[addon, king of Assyria, ...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | concer[ning ......] |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [Be present] in this ram, place (in it) [a firm positive answer, favorable designs], favorable, [propitious] omens [by the oracular command of your great divinity], and may I see (them). |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [May (this query) go to your great divinity], O Šamaš, great lord, [and may an oracle be given as an answer]. |
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 | {d}⸢UTU⸣ [EN GAL-u₂ ša₂ a-šal-lu-ka an-na GI.NA a-pal-an-ni] | |
| 2 | LU₂ ⸢ša⸣ [MU-šu₂ i-na ni-ʾa-ri an-ni-e ša₂-aṭ-ru-ma] | |
| 3 | i-na ma-⸢har⸣ [DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti GAR-un] | |
| 4 | a-na {1}{d}aš-šur—⸢ŠEŠ⸣—[SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | i-na ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [i]-⸢na⸣ ŠA₃ UDU.⸢NITA₂⸣ [NE-i GUB-za-am-ma an-na GI.NA GIŠ.HUR-MEŠ SILIM-MEŠ] | |
| 2' | UZU-MEŠ ta-mit SIG₅-MEŠ [SILIM-MEŠ ša₂ SILIM-tim ša₂ KA DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti] | |
| 3' | šuk-nam-ma lu-mur [UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti] | |
| 4' | {d}UTU EN GAL-u₂ [lil-lik-ma KIN li-tap-pal] | |
Sources & licences
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