SpTU 2, 042 (P348647)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 2, 042 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348647 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| Find spot | Uruk (mod. Warka) |
| Coordinates | 31.3234, 45.6395 |
English translation
By ORACC project cams/gkab · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1'o 1'–o 1'o 1' | [...] Anu [...] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...] Mercury [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] ... : depth [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] ... innumerable : ... [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [...] the Bristle [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] ... the Bull of Heaven [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | [...] Orion [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | [...] (in?) the month of Abu the Arrow ... [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] o 9'9'–o 9'9' | [...] Mercury, which is in [...] (constellation) in the month of Abu [...] |
| Obverse [9:10] o 10'10'–o 10'10' | [...] Venus (and) Mars - alternatively, Mercury - in [...] |
| Obverse [10:11] o 11'11'–o 11'11' | [...] ... of their light in the middle of them: Ellil ... [...] |
| Obverse [11:12] o 12'12'–o 12'12' | [...] the star that (is) in the Scorpion's horn: Anu [...] |
| Obverse [12:13] o 13'13'–o 13'13' | [...] the Scales is low and that [...] |
| Obverse [13:14] o 14'14'–o 14'14' | [...] the Mouse [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | [...] ... Saturn star to star [...] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | [...] Orion [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | [...] ... the Red Star to the Eridu Star [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [...] the Furrow [...] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [...] that is gathered (on) bare ground [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [...] alternatively, inside the Black Star [...] |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [...] planets [...] |
| Reverse [9:10] r 10'10'–r 10'10' | [...] Black Star ... [...] |
| Reverse [10:11] r 11'11'–r 11'11' | [...] : plant(s) : [...] |
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⸣}a-⸢nu⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] {⸢d⸣}GU₄.U₄ [...] | |
| 3' | [...]-ṭu ru-⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [... mal]-⸢ma⸣-al-liš ka-a-a-⸢nu⸣ [...] | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢MUL⸣.MUL [...] | |
| 6' | [...] x {mul}GU₄.AN.NA [...] | |
| 7' | [...]-⸢x⸣ {mul}SIPA.ZI.AN.NA [...] | |
| 8' | [...] {iti}NE {mul}KAK.SI.SA₂ ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 9' | [...]-šu₂ {d}GU₄.U₄ ša₂ ina {iti}NE ina {⸢mul}x⸣ [...] | |
| 10' | [...] {⸢d⸣}dele-bat {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu ša₂-niš {d}GU₄.U₄ ina [...] | |
| 11' | [...] x UD.DA-šu₂-nu ina MURUB₄-šu₂-nu {d}50 ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 12' | [...] MUL ša₂ ina SI {mul}GIR₂.<TAB> {d}a-nu [...] | |
| 13' | [...] {⸢mul⸣}zi-ba-ni-tu₂ SIG-ma ša₂ [...] | |
| 14' | [... {mul}EN].⸢TE.NA⸣.BAR.HUM [...] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [...] ⸢x {mul⸣}GENNA MUL ana MUL [...] | |
| 2' | [...] {mul}SIPA.ZI.AN.NA [...] | |
| 3' | [...] ⸢x⸣ MUL SA₅ ana {mul}ERIDU{ki} [...] | |
| 4' | [...] {⸢mul⸣}AB.SIN₂ [...] | |
| 5' | [...] ša₂ tur-ba-lu-u₂ ha-am-⸢mat⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [... ša₂]-niš ina ŠA₃ {mul}GE₆ ⸢na⸣-[...] | |
| 7' | [...] in-⸢nam⸣-[...] | |
| 8' | [...]-⸢x⸣ {d}UDU.IDIM ⸢me⸣-[...] | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢in⸣-[...] | |
| 10' | [...] {mul}GE₆ ⸢x x⸣ [...] | |
| 11' | [...] U₂ [...] | |
| 12' | [...] ⸢si-ri-x⸣ [...] | |
| 13' | [...] ⸢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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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