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Page 1373 / 1497

~675 BCE

·Neo-Assyrian

SAA 4

SAA 04 265. Query Similar to No. 264 (AGS 105+) [cultic]

(Beginning destroyed) (1) Is it acceptable [to your great divinity and] to the great lord, Ma[rduk]? (2) [Does your great divinity know it? Is it de]creed and confirmed [in a favo]rable case, by [the command] of your great divinity, [Šamaš, great lord]? (4) [Will he who can see, see] it? Will he who can hear, hear it? (5) [Disregard the (formulation) of] to[day's case], be it good or faulty. (6) [Disregard that a clean or an unclean person] has touched the sacrificial sheep, or blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep. (7) [Disregard that an unc]lean man or woman has come near the place of…

Religion & Myth·Astronomy & Mathematics

~675 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 4

SAA 04 266. Should Assurbanipal Appoint NN as Priest of Marduk? (AGS 106) [appointment]

(1) [Šamaš, great lord, give me a firm positive answer to what] I am asking you! (2) [Should Assurbanipal, son of Esar]haddon, ki[ng of Assyria, appoint the man whose name is written] in [this papyrus and placed before yo]ur great [divinity, to] the office of [high priest] in the sh[rine of Marduk ......]? (Break) (r 1) [Disregard that he who touches the head of the sacrificial sheep ... has eaten, drunk], or anoint[ed himself with anything unclean, (or) has altered or changed the proceedings]. (r 2) [Disregard that the oracle query has become jumbled in the mouth] of the haruspex, your…

SAA 04 265. Query Similar to No. 264 (AGS 105+) [cultic]

SAA 04 266. Should Assurbanipal Appoint NN as Priest of Marduk? (AGS 106) [appointment]

SAA 04 267. Will Chief Eunuch Recover Fortresses Lost to Manneans? (AGS 150) [military and political]

SAA 04 269. Query Concerning Ahseri, King of Mannea (AGS 024) [military and political]

SAA 04 275. Should Assurbanipal Admit NN to his Entourage? (AGS 114) [appointment]

SAA 04 287. Should the Assyrian Army Wage War against Šamaš-šumu-ukin? (PRT 118) [military and political]

SAA 04 288. Will the Assyrian Army Prevail over Šamaš-šumu-ukin’s? (PRT 126) [military and political]

SAA 04 290. Will Šamaš-šumu-ukin Flee Babylon if Assyrians Take Sippar? (PRT 139) [military and political]

SAA 04 305. Should Assurbanipal Appoint Šarru-kenu to an Office? (PRT 124) [appointment]

SAA 04 335. Fragment Similar to No. 333 (PRT 125) [unclassifiable]

SAA 16 021. Treacherous Astrologers (Iraq 34 21)

SAA 16 042. Governor Appropriates a Royal Gift (ABL 0415)

SAA 16 045. Complaints from Naṣibina (ABL 1371)

SAA 16 061. Partial Duplicate of No. 60 (CT 53 938)

SAA 16 075. A Crime Committed (CT 53 954)

SAA 16 077. Instructions for a Battle (CT 53 958)

SAA 16 091. Candidates for Courtiers (ABL 0875)

SAA 16 092. Drink on the Accounts! (ABL 0874)

SAA 16 110. (no title) (CT 53 960)

SAA 16 133. Fragment Referring to Damascus (ABL 1421)

SAA 16 148. Deserters from Mannea Sent to the Crown Prince (ABL 0434)

SAA 16 156. Fragment Referring to Akkad (CT 53 972)

SAA 16 164. Explaining Asakku (CT 53 952)

SAA 16 167. Fragment of a Medical Report (CT 53 855)

SAA 16 180. (no title) (ABL 1399)

Esarhaddon 118 / CDLI Seals 006507

SAA 08 001. Thunder in Ab, King Ill (RMA 257) [weather]

SAA 10 044. Timing a Journey of the King (ABL 1141+) [from astrologers]

SAA 10 206. Prayers and Rituals against Retrograding Mars (ABL 1401) [from exorcists]

SAA 10 259. Who to Come out Next? (ABL 0364) [from exorcists]

SAA 08 002. Venus and Mercury Setting (RMA 109) [planetary]

SAA 08 003. Eclipse of the Sun (RMA 274B) [eclipses]

SAA 08 004. Eclipse of the Moon in the Morning (RMA 271) [eclipses]

SAA 08 005. Evening Last of Venus (RMA 206) [planetary]

SAA 08 006. Jupiter and Cancer in Lunar Halo (RMA 093) [planetary]

SAA 08 007. Evening Last of Mars at Month’s End (RMA 021) [planetary]

SAA 08 008. Earthquakes in Adar and Nisan (RMA 264) [weather]

SAA 08 009. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 031) [lunar]

SAA 08 010. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 007) [lunar]

SAA 08 011. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 074) [lunar]

SAA 08 013. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 081) [lunar]

SAA 08 014. New Moon on 28th Day (RMA 058) [lunar]

SAA 08 015. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 128) [lunar]

SAA 08 016. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 129) [lunar]

SAA 08 017. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136O) [lunar]

SAA 08 018. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136P) [lunar]

SAA 08 019. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 152) [lunar]

SAA 08 020. Cancer in Lunar Halo [planetary]

SAA 08 021. Full Moon on 14th Day (LAS 350) [lunar]

SAA 08 023. Full Moon on 15th Day (RMA 159) [lunar]