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SAA 04 263 (P336626)

Extispicy Query, Neo-Assyrian, Kuyunjik (Nineveh) · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationSAA 04 263
IDP336626
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreExtispicy Query
Find spotKuyunjik (Nineveh)
Coordinates36.3587, 43.1519

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa04 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:3] o 1'1'–o 3'3'[Should Šamaš-šumu-ukin, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, within this year se]ize the [hand of the great lord Marduk i]n the Inner City, [and go] to Ba[bylon? Is it pleasing to your great divinity,] and the great lord, [Marduk]?

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
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1'[x x x x]-bi {uru}ŠA₃—URU [ŠU.2 EN GAL-i]
2'{[d}AMAR.UTU li]-⸢iṣ⸣-bat-ma a-na ⸢KA₂⸣.[DINGIR.RA{ki} lil-lik]
3'[UGU DINGIR-ti-ka GAL-ti] ⸢u₃⸣ EN GAL-⸢e⸣ {[d}AMAR.UTU DUG₃.GA-ab]

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