SAA 04 292. Chief Eunuch Nabu-šarru-uṣur Sent to ... [military and political]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | (1) [The 'finger' is abnormally] small. | |
| o 2'2' | (2) [The 'increment' is like a ...]... | |
| o 3'3' | (3) The upper part is elevated. | |
| o 4'4' | (4) A 'foot'-mark protrudes above the wind-pipe. | |
| o 5'5' | (5) The 'cap' of the lung is trimmed. | |
| o 6'6' | (6) The right 'side' is present. | |
| o 7'7' | BE GAG.ZAG.GA KUG ŠÀ.NIGIN 14? | (7) The breast-bone is thick. The coils of the colon are 14 in number. |
| o 8'8' | (8) The heart of the ram is normal. | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | (r 1) There are two 'stations.' The second one is like a cross. | |
| r 22 | (r 2) The 'path' is curled. There is a hole in the right of the gall bladder. | |
| r 33 | (r 3) The 'path' on the left of the gall bladder has a bifurcation to its rear. | |
| r 44 | (r 4) The 'finger' is abnormally small. | |
| r 55 | (r 5) The right 'side' is present. | |
| r 66 | (r 6) The ['inc]rement' is like a ... | |
| r 77 | (r 7) There are [7 unfavo]rable features in the extispicy. | |
| (blank) | ||
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | (r 9) [and the army at] his disposal [......] | |
| rest broken away |
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/P238810/.