Position in chronology
SAA 07 052. Fragment of Tablet Inventory (JNES 42 24)
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [x, Enuma] Anu Enlil, (2) [x], Šumma Izbu, (3) [x, Gu]rrum = mahīrum, (4) [x, "If a she]ep's ear is short," (5) [x, "If a she]ep cries baa," (6) [x, c]ommentary, (7) [x], anomaly apotropaion, (8) [x], Šumma Izbu. (9) [1]12, 1 missing, "If a city is set on a hill," (10) [x+]37, physiognomic omen series, (11) including uncanonical nigdimdimmû omens, (12) [..., k]ataduqqû. (13) [...], Ishur mā[da] (Rest destroyed or too broken for translataion)
Source: Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1992. Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration. SAA 7. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa07/P336222/
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Transliteration
[x UD]—AN—dEN.LÍL / [x x] BE—iz-bu / [x] ⸢gur⸣-rum ma-ḫi-rum / [x BE]—⸢UDU⸣.NÍTA—PI.2—kur-ri / [x BE—UDU].NÍTA—im-ba-a—il-si / [x x] ⸢mu⸣-kal-lim-tú / [x] ⸢NAM⸣.BÚR.BI iz-bi / [x x x] BE—iz-bu / [01-me]-12 01 LÁ 1 URU—ina—SUKUD-e—GAR / [x]+37 ÉŠ.QAR ALAM.DÍM-mu-u / [o] a-di BAR-MEŠ NÍG.DÍM.DÍM-mu-u / [x] ⸢KA⸣.TA.DUG₄.GA-u / [x] ⸢is⸣-ḫur—ma-[a-da] / [x x] ⸢x⸣ ri [x x] / [x x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x]
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian administrative record (palace or temple), edited by F.M. Fales & J.N. Postgate (SAA 7, 1992). ORACC text P336222.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336222). source
Translation excerpted from Fales, F.M. & Postgate, J.N. 1992. Imperial Administrative Records, Part I: Palace and Temple Administration. SAA 7. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa07/P336222/.
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