SAA 10 184. Extispicy Omens (CT 53 411) [from diviners]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P313824

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 10

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (3) The 'base of the throne' was firm; [......]; (4) the base of the right-hand surface [of the 'finger' ...]; (5) the 'path' is present; ...[......] (6) the wide part of the left side of the 'finger' [......] (7) the wide part of the left side of the 'finger' ...[......] (8) [...] the 'pouch' ...[......] (Break) (r 3) [...] the 'station' [......] (r 4) ... the upper part [......] (r 5) and the lower part is elevated; [......] (r 6) is not twisted; the 'cap' is 'loose'; (r 7) As to what the king, my lord, sa[id]: "Did Nabû-nadin-šumi son of [NN] become clean?" — the pur[ification ritual ......] (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 10 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

ú mu [x x x x x] / da [x x x x x] / ŠUB—AŠ.TE GIN ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / SUḪUŠ EDIN 15 [ŠU.SI x x x x x] / KASKAL i-ši UD ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / DAGAL 150 ŠU.SI [x x x x x] / DAGAL 150 ŠU.SI GIŠ [x x x x x] / [x x] ⸢DÙN ḪUL x⸣ [x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢NA⸣ [x x x x x] / ⸢x x⸣ AN.⸢TA⸣-[tum x x x x x] / u KI.TA-tum DU-[ik x x x x x] / NU zir-at U.SAG BAR ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / ša LUGAL be-lí iq-bu-[u-ni] / ⸢ma⸣-a mdPA—SUM—MU DUMU [x x x] / ⸢i⸣-te-li-li tak-[pir-tú x x x] / [x x x x x] / [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x]

Scholarly note

Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P313824.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313824). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P313824/.

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