Position in chronology
SAA 04 275. Should Assurbanipal Admit NN to his Entourage? (AGS 114) [appointment]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (r 1) [Disregard that a clean or an un]clean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, or [blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep]. (r 2) [Disregard that] an unclean person [has performed extispicy] in this place. (r 3) [Disregard that the] ram (offered) to [your] divinity for the performance of the extispicy [is deficient or faulty]. (r 4) [Disregard that he who to]uches the fore[head of the sheep is dressed in] his ordinary soiled garments. (r 5) [Disregard] that I, the haruspex your servant, [have jumbled] the oracle query in [my] mouth, (or) changed or altered the…
Source: 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/P336091/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[e-zib šá KUG lu]-ʾu-ú SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-tú ú—[lu a-na IGI SISKUR.SISKUR GIL-MEŠ-ku] / [e-zib šá i]-⸢na⸣ KI an-ni-e lu-ʾu-ú [MÁŠ MÁŠ-ú] / [e-zib šá] ⸢UDU⸣.NÍTA DINGIR-⸢ti⸣-[ka šá a]-na MÁŠ MÁŠ-ú [LAL-ú ḫa-ṭu-ú] / [e-zib šá] ⸢TAG⸣-it ⸢SAG⸣.[KI UDU.NÍTA] TÚG gi-né-e-šú ar-[šat lab-šu] / [e-zib] šá a-na-ku DUMU—LÚ.ḪAL ARAD-ka ta-mit i-na ⸢KA⸣-[ia up-tar-ri-du] / ⸢ku⸣-un ŠU.2 BAL-ú uš-pe-lu lu-ú…
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 P336091.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Ivan Starr, Queries to the Sungod: Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria (State Archives of Assyria, 4), 1990. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336091/..
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/P336091/.
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