PRT 082 (P336353)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | PRT 082 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336353 |
| 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 | [Šamaš, great lord, give me a firm] positive answer [to what I am asking you]! |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [From ...... to the ...th day of the com]ing [month], month [......] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [Pla]ce [in it a firm positive answer ... by the oracular command of your great divinity, and may I see it]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [May (this query) go to your great divinity, O Šamaš], great lord, [and may an oracle be given as an answer]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...... The 'f]inger' is thick. [......] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [......] the middle 'finger' of the lung [......] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [......] the right [...] in the side of [......]. |
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 | [TA UD x x x x x x x x ša₂ ITI e]-⸢ri⸣-bi ITI [x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x ša₂ KA DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti šuk]-nam-[ma lu-mur] | |
| 2' | [UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti {d}UTU] ⸢EN⸣ GAL-u₂ [lil-lik-ma KIN li-tap-pal] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢ŠU⸣.SI eb-bet [x x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ U—MUR ⸢MURUB₄⸣ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x x x x x x x]-⸢tum⸣ 15 ina A₂ [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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