Position in chronology
SAA 04 334. Fragment Similar to No. 333 (PRT 121) [unclassifiable]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning destroyed) (1) [...] army [......] (2) [...] our army [......] (3) [At the l]eft side of the gall bladder there is a cross. [......] (4) [...] ... [......] (5) [...] succession [......] (6) [...] supremacy [......] (7) [...] a fissure to the 'weapon' [......] (8) [...] the son [will make] rebellion and [......] (9) [...] ... [......] (Break) (r 2) Month Tishri (VII), 8th day, [eponym year] of Bel-Harran-[šadû'a]. (r 3) Ilu-ṣabtanni son of [...]-bani (and) [PN] son of haruspex Marduk-šumu-uṣur (were) reporters.
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/P336362/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x] ERIM ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ERIM-ni ma ⸢ka?⸣ [x x x x x x x x] / [BE ina] ⸢150⸣ ZÉ BAR-tum [x x x x x x x] / [x x x]-šú ne ⸢ti? ka?⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [x x x] ri-du-tú ⸢ku⸣-[x x x x x x x x] / [x x x] ki-šá-tú [x x x x] ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ DU₈ ana GIŠ.TUKUL ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / [x x x x]-an ⸢DUMU⸣ ḪI.GAR u [x x x x x x] / [x x x x]-kad sa-ti [x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x]…
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 P336362.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336362). 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/P336362/.
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