SpTU 5, 256 (P348843)
Omen, Hellenistic, Uruk · c. 330 BCE–141 BCE
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| Designation | SpTU 5, 256 |
|---|---|
| ID | P348843 |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| flake [1:2] flake 2'2'–flake 2'2' | [...] kicking [...] |
| flake [2:3] flake 3'3'–flake 3'3' | [...] ... alternatively (the demon) Ude-anše [...] |
| flake [3:4] flake 4'4'–flake 4'4' | [...] ... lady of the gods, either [...] |
| flake [4:5] flake 5'5'–flake 5'5' | [...] people (working with) animals. : LU₂.AN.NE₂.BA.TI# (and), |
| flake [5:6] flake 6'6'–flake 6'6' | [...] (and) NIN.NUN.GAL.E.NE (mean) : eššebû-ecstatic (who is) : knot with Narudu. |
| flake [6:7] flake 7'7'–flake 7'7' | [...] LU₂.GUB.BA (means) ecstatic. : LUGAL.BA.GUB.BA (means) |
| flake [7:8] flake 8'8'–flake 8'8' | [...] ... NI₂#.ZU#.RA#.AH : KUR.GAR.RA : LU₂.AN.SAL.LA (mean) |
| flake [8:9] flake 9'9'–flake 9'9' | [...] (and) hermaphrodite. : (If) he sees a deaf man |
| flake [9:10] flake 10'10'–flake 10'10' | [...] dumb, alternatively deaf |
| flake [10:11] flake 11'11'–flake 11'11' | [...] fall of Nippur |
| flake [11:12] flake 12'12'–flake 12'12' | [...] Nippur |
| flake [12:13] flake 13'13'–flake 13'13' | [...] dwarf |
| flake [13:14] flake 14'14'–flake 14'14' | [...] gnome |
| flake [14:15] flake 15'15'–flake 15'15' | [...] incantation priest |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| flake | ||
| 1' | [...] x x [...] | |
| 2' | [...] ⸢GIR₃⸣ RA.⸢RA⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | [...] x ša₂-niš {<d>}U₄.DE₃—⸢ANŠE⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] x be-let DINGIR-MEŠ lu-u₂ [...] | |
| 5' | [...] EREN₂-<MEŠ> na-man(KUR-)šu₂ {lu₂}AN.NE₂.BA.⸢TI⸣ | |
| 6' | [... NIN.NUN.GAL.E].NE eš-še-bu-u₂ ri-kis {d}NA.⸢RU⸣.[DU] | |
| 7' | [...] {lu₂}GUB.BA mah-hu-u₂ LUGAL.BA.GUB.BA | |
| 8' | [...] x ⸢NI₂.ZU.RA⸣.AH KUR.GAR.RA {lu₂}AN.SAL.LA | |
| 9' | [...] ⸢as⸣-sin-ni suk-ku-ka IGI | |
| 10' | [... uq]-⸢qu⸣-qu ša₂-niš suk-ku-ku | |
| 11' | [...] ŠUB{ti} DUR₂-giš-lu-u₂ | |
| 12' | [...] ⸢DUR₂⸣-giš-lu-u₂ | |
| 13' | [...] ⸢ku⸣-ru-u₂ | |
| 14' | [...] šu-ul-la-nu | |
| 15' | [...] {⸢lu₂}MAŠ.MAŠ⸣ | |
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