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SAA 04 112

  • CDLI P236943
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: 1880-07-19, 0191

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 04 112. Fragment of a Military Query [military and political][via saao/saa04]

Obverse
oo beginning destroyed

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ dib-bi [x x x x x]

(1) [......] words [......]

o 2'2'

[x x x x x]-MEŠ qir-bu [x x x x x]

(2) [......] nearby [......]

o 3'3'

[x x x a-na?] ⸢GAZ⸣ SAR u IR i-KUR-⸢da⸣ [x x x x]

(3) [......] will conquer [... in order to kil]l, plunder, and loot [...]

o 4'4'

[x x x x x]-⸢MEŠ⸣ ki? ⸢x⸣+[x 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/P236943/.