Position in chronology
SAA 09 011. Report on a Vision and an Oracle to Assurbanipal (CT 53 219)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 9(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] wen[t ......] (2) did you/she [not] go t[o ......] (3) "days ... [......] (4) "I will vanquish the enemy of Assurbanipal [......] (5) "Sit down! I will put the lands in orde[r ......] (6) "In my pr[evious] vision [......] (7) "very [much]; a golden star ornament [......] (8) [a t]able, one 'litre' of strong bread upon [it ......] (9) a ... platter [......] (10) [...]s pulled taut [......] (11) [un]der the [golden] star ornament [......] (12) [at] my head [......] (13) [s]tar[s ......] (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 9 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x]+⸢x⸣ it-tal-[x x x x x x x x x x x] / [la-a] tal-li-ki a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / [ma]-⸢a⸣ UD-me ⸢in ni?⸣ ú ⸢kin⸣ [x x x x x x x] / ⸢LÚ⸣.KÚR a-kaš-šad šá maš-šur—DÙ—A [x x x x x x] / [ma]-⸢a⸣ ši-bi KUR.KUR ú-taq-qa-[an x x x x x] / ⸢ma⸣-a ina di-gi-li-ia ⸢pa⸣-[ni-i x x x x x] / [a]—dan-niš kak-kab-tú šá KUG.GI ⸢an?⸣-[x x x x x] / [GIŠ].BANŠUR 01 qa NINDA dan-ni ina ⸢UGU⸣ [x x x x x] /…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian prophetic oracle, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 9, 1997). ORACC text P313634.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P313634). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1997. Assyrian Prophecies. SAA 9. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa09/P313634/.
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