Position in chronology
SAA 04 079. Should Assurbanipal Send Ša-Nabu-šu to Ellipi? (AGS 075) [military and political]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 4(1) [Šamaš, great lord], give me a fi[rm positive answer to what I am asking you]! (2) [Should Assurbanipal, son of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, str]ive and plan? Should he send [Ša-Nabû-šû, chief eunuch, with men, hors]es, and an army, as great as he wishes, [to the city ... in the district of Ellipi], and should they go? (5) [If he, having planned, sends] him, and he sets up [camp against the city ...], will he also be able to set up [camp wherever he wishes] in the district [of Ellipi]? (7) [Will Ša-Nabû-šû, chief eunuch, with the army a]t his [disposal], escape from Ellipian troops,…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[dUTU EN GAL-ú šá a-šal-lu-ka an-na GI].⸢NA⸣ a-pal-an-ni / [mdaš-šur—DÙ—DUMU.UŠ DUMU mdaš-šur—ŠEŠ—SUM-na LUGAL KUR—aš-šur.KI li]-⸢iṣ⸣-rim lik-pid-ma / [mšá—dPA—šú-ú LÚ.GAL—SAG-MEŠ a-di LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ ANŠE.KUR].⸢RA⸣-MEŠ Á.KAL-MEŠ mál ŠÀ-ba-šú ub-lu / [a-na URU.x x šá i-na na-ge-e ša KUR.il-li-pi liš-pur]-ma lil-li-ku / [GIM ik-tap-du-ma il-tap-ru i-na UGU URU.x x ma-dak]-tú GAR-un ù i-na na-ge-e /…
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 P336066.
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/P336066/..
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/P336066/.
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