Position in chronology
SAA 04 065. Should the Magnates March Deep into Media to Collect Tribute? (PRT 022) [military and political]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 4(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... and should he send them to col]lect a trib[ute of horses]? Should they ta[ke the road and go to Sikr]iš, [to ......], to Kukkubâ, to the land Tu[aiadi, to ......, to the ci]ty UDpani, to the city Ramadani, and as far as the land Arrî? Will they collect [a tribute of h]orses? (6) Will they (be able to) ma[rch about] for as many days [as they wish], will they, either going or returning, escape, be sa[ved, or] save themselves from [the troops of the Medes, or] from the troops of the Manneans, [from the troops of the Cimmerians, and from any other enemy]? (9) [Will…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x a-na e-se]-er man-⸢da⸣-[at-ti šá ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ liš-pur-ma] / [ur-ḫa KASKAL li]-⸢iṣ⸣-ba-tu-ma a-na [KUR.si-ik-ri]-⸢iš* x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] / [a-na KUR.x x x x] a-na KUR.ku-uk-ku-ba-a a-na KUR.tu-[a-ia-di?] / [a-na KUR.x x a-na] ⸢URU*⸣.UD-pa-ni a-na URU.ra-ma-da-ni ⸢ù⸣ a-di KUR.ár-⸢ri-i⸣ [o] / [lil-li-ku man-da-at-ti šá] ⸢ANŠE⸣.KUR.RA-MEŠ li-si-ru a-di ma-al UD-me / [ŠÀ-ba-šú-nu ub-lu…
Scholarly note
Extispicy query addressed to Šamaš, the sungod and patron of divination, edited by Ivan Starr (SAA 4, 1990). The king asks the deity to render a yes/no verdict on a political or military question. ORACC text P237053.
Attribution
Image: 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/P237053/..
Translation excerpted from Starr, I. 1990. Queries to the Sungod: Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria. SAA 4. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa04/P237053/.
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