SAA 04 207. Fragment Referring to Hardships of Travel [miscellaneous][via saao/saa04]

Obverse
oo beginning broken away

(Beginning destroyed)

o 1'1'

[x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ ṣu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x]

o 2'2'

[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šú (blank) [x x x x x x x]

o 3'3'

[e-zib šá x x] ⸢e⸣-mu-qu šá mdaš-šur—⸢ŠEŠ⸣—[SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.KI]

(3) [Disregard that ......] the army of of Esarh[addon, king of Assyria].

o 4'4'

[e-zib šá x x ú]-⸢ta?⸣-ru-šú GIG ma-na-[aḫ-ti šá KASKAL.2 IGI-MEŠ]

(4) [Disregard that they (may)] turn him [... and that they may experience] illness and hardsh[ips on the road].

o 5'5'

[e-zib šá x x x DINGIR?] ḪUL d⸢INNIN?⸣ [ḪUL x x x x x x x]

(5) [Disregard that ... an] evil [god] (or) [an evil] godd[ess ......].

Reverse
r 1r 1

[e-zib šá KUG lu-ʾu-ú] ⸢UDU.NÍTA⸣ [SISKUR.SISKUR TAG-MEŠ]

(r 1) [Disregard that a clean or an unclean person has touched the sacrificial] sheep, [or blocked] the way [of the sacrifice].

r 22

[ú—lu a]-na IGI [SISKUR.SISKUR GIL-MEŠ-ku]

(r 2) [Disregard that an unclean man or woman] has come near [the place of the exti]spicy [and made it unclean].

r 33

[e-zib šá lu-ʾu-ú lu-ʾu-ú-ti KI] ⸢MÁŠ DIB⸣-[MEŠ-qu-ma ú-le-ʾu-ú]

(r 3) [Disregard that an unclean person has performed extispicy in th]is [place].

r 44

[e-zib šá ina KI NE]-i [lu-ʾu-ú MÁŠ MÁŠ-ú]

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/P239279/.