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Names

  • SAA 04 098

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Details

  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. Esarhaddon.000.00.00
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Extispicy Query
  • military and political

Bibliography

PRT 034; SAA 04, 098

SAA 04 098. Fragment Similar to No. 96 (PRT 034) [military and political][via saao/saa04]

Obverse
obeginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[ŠÀ-bi šá m-šurŠEŠSUM-na LUGAL KUR-šur.KI]

(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--ni a-mi-ru e-ma-a-ra še-mu-ú i-šem-me-e]

o 3'3'

e-zib šá ENMU.[MU NE-i mšádPAšu-ú .GALSAG x x x]

(3) Disregard that the subject of [this] query, Ša-Nabû-šû, chief eunuch, [...].

o 4'4'

e-zib šá ina pa-a-[ti i-dab-bu-bu úlu i-dab-bu-bu]

(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--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.ḪAL [ARAD-ka mim-ma lu-ʾu-ú 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 [...].
[Let them be taken out and put aside]!

r 22

ku-un ŠU BAL-ú -[pe-lu úlu ta-mit ina KA-ia ip-tar-ri-du]

r 33

LAL-MEŠ-ú UD-mu -[qa-a x x x x]

r 44

a-šal-ka dUTU EN GAL-[ú ki-i ENMU.MU NE-i]

(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 .GAL[SAG x x x x]

rest broken away

(Rest destroyed)


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/.

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