SAA 04 296. Fragment Referring to the Cimmerians (PRT 138) [military and political]

~675 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336366

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 4

High confidence

(1) If the middle of the 'station' is effaced: Ištar is filled with anger at the man. For the sick man: his illness will linger. (3) The 'path,' 'strength,' and 'well-being' are present. (4) In the left of the gall bladder there is a 'foot'-mark which faces the base of the 'finger.' (5) The left of the gall bladder is split. The 'base of the throne' is present. (6) The front of the gall bladder is located to the right. (7) A 'weapon'-mark is present. The 'finger' is raised and turned. (8) The 'weapon'-mark of the 'increment' rises to the left. (9) If the upper part and the lower part are in…

State Archives of Assyria, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).

Transliteration

BE MURUB₄ NA pa-áš-ṭa / d15 lib-bat LÚ DIRI-at ana <GIG> GIG-us-su / GÍD.DA-ik GÍR KALAG SILIM GAR-MEŠ / BE ina 150 ZÉ GÌR SUḪUŠ ŠU.SI IGI / BE 150 ZÉ DU₈ ŠUB—AŠ.TE GAR-in / BE ZÉ IGI-MEŠ-šá ana 15 GAR-MEŠ / BE GIŠ.TUKUL GAR ŠU.SI ZI? u GUR-úr / BE GIŠ.TUKUL MÁŠ ana 150 ZI-bi / BE AN.TA-tum KI.TA-tum šit-qu-la / taš-nin-tum mur-ta-mu i-zi-nu-ú / BE ku-tal MUR 15 DU₈ suḫ-ḫur-ti ERIM-MU ku-[tal x x…

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 P336366.

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/P336366/..
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/P336366/.

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