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SAA 04 119

  • CDLI P239003
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 11523
  • Primary publication(s): AGS 027

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Babylonian)
  • Genre: Extispicy Query (military and political)
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Babylonian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Esarhaddon (680–669 BC)
  • Dated: no

Sender Information

  • Sender: (unknown)
  • Location: Nineveh
  • Recipient: (the king)

SAA 04 119. Fragment of a Military Query (AGS 027) [military and political][via saao/saa04]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[e-mu-qu šá mAN.ŠÁR—ŠEŠ]—⸢SUM⸣-na LUGAL ⸢KUR⸣—[AN.ŠÁR i-ma-qa-tu-ú?]

(1) [will ... attack the army of Esarhad]don, king of [Assyria]?

o 2'2'

[ŠÀ-bu šá mAN.ŠÁR—ŠEŠ—SUM]-⸢na⸣ LUGAL KUR—AN.ŠÁR i-mar-[ra-ṣu i-lam-mì-ni]

(2) [Will Esarhad]don, king of Assyria, be trou[bled and angry]?

o 3'3'

[IGI-ru IGI-ra ŠE.GA-ú ŠE.GA-e DINGIR-ut]-ka GAL-[ti ZU-e]

(3) [Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it]? Does your grea[t divinity know it]?

o 4'4'

[e-zib šá a-na EGIR] a-⸢dan⸣-[ni-ia x x x x x x x x]

(4) [Disregard what happens after my] stip[ulated term].

o 5'5'

[e-zib šá i-na pa-a-ti i-dab-bu-bu ú]—⸢lu⸣ i-dab-bu-[bu]

(5) [Disregard what they speak with their mouths] or what they think.

rest broken away

(Break)

Reverse
rr beginning broken away

r 1'1'

[e-zib šá ik-rib di-nim UD]-⸢mu⸣ NE-i ⸢GIM⸣ [DÙG.GA GIM ḫa-ṭu-ú]

(r 1) [Disregard the (formulation) of the prayer for t]oday's [case], be it [good, be it faulty].

r 2'2'

[e-zib šá UDU.NÍTA DINGIR-ti]-⸢ka⸣ šá ana MÁŠ MÁŠ-[ú LAL-ú ḫa-ṭu-ú]

(r 2) [Disregard that the ram (offered) to yo]ur [divinity] for the performance of the extispicy [is deficient or faulty].

r 3'3'

[e-zib šá TAG-it SAG.KI UDU].⸢NÍTA⸣ TÚG gi-né-e-šú ar-šá-[ti lab-šú]

(r 3) [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sh]eep [is dressed in] his ordinary soil[ed] garments.

r 4'4'

[e-zib šá a-na-ku DUMU—LÚ.ḪAL] ⸢ARAD⸣-ka TÚG gi-né-e-[a ar-šá-ti lab-šá-ku]

(r 4) [Disregard that I, the haruspex] your ser[vant, am dressed in my] ordinary [soiled] garments, (that) [I have eaten], drunk, or touc[hed anything unclean, or (that) I have changed or altered the proceedings].

r 5'5'

[mim-ma lu-ʾu-ú KÚ] ⸢NAG⸣-ú ú-lap-[pi-tu ku-un ŠU BAL-ú uš-pe-lu]

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/P239003/.

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