SAA 04 237. Fragment of a Query [unclassifiable][via saao/saa04]
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r 1r 1 | [e-zib šá di-in UD-me an-ni-e GIM DÙG.GA GIM ḫa-ṭu-ú UD]-⸢mu⸣ ŠÚ-⸢pu⸣ [A.AN ŠUR-nun] | (r 1) [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case, be it good, be it faulty, (and that) the da]y is overcas[t and it is raining]. |
r 22 | [e-zib šá lu-ʾu-ú SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-MEŠ ú—lu a-na IGI SISKUR.SISKUR] GIL-MEŠ-⸢ku⸣ | (r 2) [Disregard that an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, or] blocked [the way of the sacrificial sheep]. |
r 33 | (r 3) [Disregard that an unclean man or woman has come near the place of the extispicy and made] it unclean. | |
r 44 | (r 4) [Disregard that an unclean person has performed extisp]icy [in this place]. | |
r 55 | [e-zib šá UDU.NÍTA DINGIR-ti-ka šá a-na MÁŠ MÁŠ-ú LAL-ú] ḫa-ṭu-ú | (r 5) [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your great divinity for the performance of the extispicy is deficient or] faulty. |
r 66 | [e-zib šá TAG-it SAG.KI UDU.NÍTA TÚG gi-né-e-šú ár-šat lab-šú mim-ma lu-ʾu-ú] ⸢KÚ NAG ŠÉŠ⸣-šú | (r 6) [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments, (or) has eat]en, drunk, or anointed himself with [anything unclean]. |
r 77 | [e-zib šá a-na-ku DUMU—LÚ.ḪAL ARAD-ka TÚG gi-né-e-a ár-šat lab-šá-ku ku-un ŠU.2] BAL-⸢ú uš-pe-lu⸣ | (r 7) [Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant, am dressed in my ordinary soiled garments], have altered or changed [the proceedings, or I have jumbled the oracle query in my mouth]. |
r 88 | [ú—lu ta-mit i-na KA-ia up-tar-ri-du lu-ú ZI-MEŠ-ḫa lu-ú BAR-MEŠ a-šal-ka dUTU EN] GAL-⸢ú⸣ | (r 8) [Let them be taken out and put aside]! |
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/P336624/.