CTN 4, 047 (P363462)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Kalhu · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | CTN 4, 047 |
|---|---|
| ID | P363462 |
| Museum no. | IM — |
| Collection | National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| Find spot | Kalhu (mod. Nimrūd) |
| Coordinates | 36.1022, 43.3385 |
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' | If a shepherd-bird goes into the storeroom of a man's house [...]. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | If ditto (a shepherd-bird) enters a man's house: the house [...]. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | If a ṣallallu-bird, all day (and) all night, ... [...]. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | If ditto (a ṣallallu-bird) keeps building (its) nest in the centre of the city [...]. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | If ditto (a ṣallallu-bird) keeps building (its) nest in the centre of the city [...]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | If there are always ditto (ṣallallu-bird(s)) in the city: night ... [...]. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 7'7'–o 7'7' | If ditto (a ṣallallu-bird) during early high-water: night [...]. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 8'8'–o 8'8' | If ditto (a ṣallallu-bird), high water [...]. |
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' | SIPA{mušen} ina GA₂.NUN E₂ NA DU{kam₂} [...] | |
| 2' | {<|KI.MIN|(SIPA{mušen})>} ana E₂ NA KU₄ E₂ [...] | |
| 3' | U₃.KU.KU{mušen} ina ka-la U₄ GE₆ ⸢NA⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | {<|KI.MIN|(U₃.KU.KU{mušen})>} ina ŠA₃ IRI qin-na iq-ta-na-an [...] | |
| 5' | {<|KI.MIN|(U₃.KU.KU{mušen})>} ina ŠA₃ IRI qin-na iq-ta-[na-an] [...] | |
| 6' | {<|KI.MIN|(U₃.KU.KU{mušen})>} ina IRI it-tab-šu-u₂ GE₆ x [...] | |
| 7' | {<|KI.MIN|(U₃.KU.KU{mušen})>} ina ILLU ⸢har⸣-[pi₂] GE₆ [...] | |
| 8' | {<|KI.MIN|(U₃.KU.KU{mušen})>} ⸢ILLU⸣ [...] | |
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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