SAA 04 098. Fragment Similar to No. 96 (PRT 034) [military and political][via saao/saa04]
Obverse | ||
oo | beginning broken away | |
o 1'1' | (1) [Will Esarhaddon, king of Assyria], be trou[bled and angry? Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it]? | |
o 2'2' | i-mar-[ra-ṣu i-lam-mì-ni a-mi-ru e-ma-a-ra še-mu-ú i-šem-me-e] | |
o 3'3' | e-zib šá EN—⸢MU⸣.[MU NE-i mšá—dPA—šu-ú LÚ.GAL—SAG x x x] | (3) Disregard that the subject of [this] query, Ša-Nabû-šû, chief eunuch, [...]. |
o 4'4' | (4) Disregard what [they speak] with their mou[ths, or what they are thinking]. | |
o 5'5' | e-zib šá ik-rib di-nim [UD-mu an-ni-i GIM DÙG.GA GIM ḫa-ṭu-ú] | (5) Disregard the (formulation) of the prayer for [today's] case, [be it good, be it faulty]. |
o 6'6' | e-zib šá UDU.NÍTA DINGIR-⸢ti⸣-[ka šá a-na MÁŠ MÁŠ-ú LAL-ú ḫa-ṭu-ú] | (6) Disregard that the ram (offered) to [your] divinity [for the performance of the extispicy is deficient or faulty]. |
o 7'7' | e-zib šá TAG-it pu-ut UDU.[NÍTA TÚG gi-né-e-šú ár-šá-a-ti lab-šú] | (7) Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep [is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments]. |
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | e-zib šá ana-ku DUMU—LÚ.ḪAL [ARAD-ka mim-ma lu-ʾu-ú KÚ NAG-ú ŠÉŠ-šú] | (r 1) Disregard that I, the haruspex [your servant, have eaten, drunk, or anointed myself with anything unclean], have changed or altered the proceedings, [jumbled] and impaired [the oracle query in my mouth], (or) (that) the day is advanced [...]. |
r 22 | ku-un ŠU BAL-ú ⸢uš⸣-[pe-lu ú—lu ta-mit ina KA-ia ip-tar-ri-du] | |
r 33 | ||
r 44 | (r 4) I ask you, Šamaš, great lord, [whether the subject of this query, Ša]-Nabû-šû, chi[ef eunuch ...] | |
r 55 | [mšá]—⸢dPA*⸣—šu-ú LÚ.⸢GAL⸣—[SAG x x x x] | |
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/P240297/.