SAA 04 221. Fragment of a Query [unclassifiable][via saao/saa04]
Obverse | ||
oo | totally broken away | |
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | (r 1) [Disregard that] I have per[formed extispicy in this uncl]ean [place]. | |
r 22 | [e-zib šá UDU.NÍTA DINGIR-ti-ka šá a-na MÁŠ MÁŠ]-ú LAL-[ú ḫa-ṭu-ú] | (r 2) [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your great divinity for the performance of the extisp]icy is defici[ent or faulty]. |
r 33 | [e-zib šá TAG-it pu-ut UDU.NÍTA mi-iḫ]-⸢ḫa⸣ ZÍD.MAD.GÁ A-⸢MEŠ⸣ [ḫaṣ-bu IZI TAG-tú] | (r 3) [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep has touched the (libation) be]er, the maṣhatu-flour, the water, [the container and the fire]. |
r 44 | [e-zib šá a-na-ku DUMU—LÚ.ḪAL ARAD-ka mim-ma] lu-ʾu-u a-[ku-lu NAG-ú ŠÉŠ-šú] | (r 4) [Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant], have e[aten, drunk, or anointed myself with anything] unclean, [have seen fear and terror at night, have altered or c]ha[nged the proceedings, or (that) the oracle query has become jumbled in my mouth]. |
r 55 | [i-na MI LUḪ-tú pi-rit-ti a-mu-ru ku-un ŠU.2 BAL-ú] ⸢uš⸣-[pe-lu ú—lu ta-mit] | |
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/P239304/.