Position in chronology
SAA 04 209. Fragment Referring to Rams (AGS 139) [unclassifiable]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 4(Beginning destroyed) (2) [......] ...s (and) the rams [...] (3) [......]? Does your great divinity kno[w it]? (4) Is it decree[d and confi]rme[d in a favorable case, by the command of your] great [divinity, Šamaš, great lord]? (7) [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case], be it good, be it [faulty]. (r 1) [Disregard that a clean or an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, or blocked] the way of the sacri[ficial sheep]. (r 2) [Disregard that an un]clean person [has performed] exti[spicy in this place]. (r 3) [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your great divinity for] the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ [x]-ma [x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣-MEŠ UDU.NÍTA-MEŠ ⸢x x⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x x x]-EŠ? DINGIR-ut-ka GAL-ti ⸢ZU⸣-[e] / [i-na SILIM-tim i-na KA DINGIR-ti-ka] GAL-[ti] / [dUTU EN GAL-ú] qa-bi-[i] / [ku]-⸢un⸣-[i] / [e-zib šá di-in UD-mu an-ni-i] ⸢GIM⸣ DÙG.GA GIM [ḫa-ṭu-ú] / [e-zib šá KUG lu-ʾu-ú SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-MEŠ] ú—lu IGI ⸢SISKUR⸣.[SISKUR GIL-MEŠ] / [e-zib šá i-na…
Scholarly note
Extispicy query addressed to Šamaš, the sungod and patron of divination, edited by Ivan Starr (SAA 4, 1990). The king asks the deity to render a yes/no verdict on a political or military question. ORACC text P336107.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) ? — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336107). source
Translation excerpted from Starr, I. 1990. Queries to the Sungod: Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria. SAA 4. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa04/P336107/.
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