SpTU 3, 087 (P348691)
Omen, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 3, 087 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348691 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Hellenistic · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE |
| Genre | Omen |
| 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 1o 1–o 1o 1 | When an āšipu goes to a patient's house: |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | (If), in the street, he sees a potsherd upright: that patient is critically ill; do not approach him. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | (If) he sees (him) there and then: a curse afflicts that patient; he will linger and die. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | (If) he sees a baked brick: that patient will die : (If) he sees a black dog or a black pig: that patient will die. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | (If) he sees a black pig: that patient will die : (variant:) enemy of the gods; he will die. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | (If) he sees a white pig: that patient will live : (variant:) distress will afflict him. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | (If) he sees a red pig within 3 months : (variant:) within 3 days: he will die. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | (If) he sees a multicoloured pig: he is sick with dropsy; he is critically ill; do not approach him. |
| Obverse [8:10] o 99– | (If) he sees pigs which lift up their tails: he is critically ill; do not approach him. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | (If) he sees mating pigs: that patient will die. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | (If) he sees a black ox within 5 days : (variant:) within 15 days: he will die. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | (If) he sees a white ox: hand of his god : (variant:) hand of Ninurta : (variant:) hand of the Divine Twins; he is critically ill; do not approach him. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | (If) he sees a red ox: that patient will die. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | (If) he sees a multicoloured ox: Lamaštu afflicts him : (variant:) a curse afflicts him; he will quickly die. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 8-98-9–r 8-98-9 | (If) he sees an ox which has thrown its horn: that patient will quickly die : (variant:) within 7 days he will die. |
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-nu-ma a-na E₂ {lu₂}GIG KA.PIRIG₃ DU{ku} | |
| 2 | ina SILA ŠIKA zaq-pa IGI GIG BI na-kud la₃ TE-šu₂ | |
| 3 | KI.U₄.BA IGI GIG BI NAM.ERIM₂ DAB-su u₂-za-bal-ma BA.UŠ₂ | |
| 4 | SIG₄.AL.UR₃.RA IGI GIG BI UŠ₂ lu UR.GI₇ GE₆ lu ŠAH GE₆ IGI GIG BI UŠ₂ | |
| 5 | ŠAH GE₆ IGI BA.UŠ₂ KUR₂ DINGIR-MEŠ BA.UŠ₂ | |
| 6 | ŠAH BABBAR IGI GIG BI DIN MUNUS.KALA.GA DAB-su | |
| 7 | ŠAH SA₅ IGI ana ITI 3-KAM₂ ana U₄ 3-KAM₂ GAM | |
| 8 | ŠAH GUN₃.A IGI A.GA.A.NU.TIL.LA.A GIG na-kud la₃ TE-šu₂ | |
| 9 | ŠAH-MEŠ KUN-MEŠ-šu₂-nu IL₂-MEŠ-ma IGI na-kud la₃ TE-šu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ŠAH-MEŠ rit-ku-bu-ti IGI GIG BI UŠ₂ | |
| 2 | GU₄ GE₆ IGI ana U₄ 5-KAM₂ ana U₄ 15-KAM₂ UŠ₂ | |
| 3 | GU₄ BABBAR IGI ŠU DINGIR-šu₂ ŠU {d}NIN.URTA | |
| 4 | ŠU {d}MAŠ.TAB.BA na-kud la₃ TE-šu₂ | |
| 5 | GU₄ SA₅ IGI GIG BI UŠ₂ | |
| 6 | GU₄ <GUN₃>.A IGI {d}DIM₃.ME DAB-su | |
| 7 | NAM.ERIM₂ DAB-su ar₂-hiš UŠ₂ | |
| 8-9 | GU₄ SI-šu₂ ŠUB-ma IGI GIG BI ar₂;-hiš UŠ₂ ana U₄ 7-KAM₂ UŠ₂ | |
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- 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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