Position in chronology
SAA 04 316. Fragment Concerning a Dream (PRT 103) [cultic]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 4(1) The top of the 'station' is pointed. If the 'cruci[ble'] is cu[rled] all over on the [right and left] upward, and the 'path' lies within it: in warfare, the weapons of the pr[ince will have no equal]. In a distant time, the prince's land will be ob[edient] to him. (5) The 'well-being,' the 'path' on the right of the gall [bladder, and the 'base] of the throne' [are present]. (6) The left of the gall bladder is [attached]. (7) [In the] top of the [...] surface of the ['finger' ...]. (8) [......]. (9) [The upper pa]rt is elevated. The 'ear' is present. (10) The base of the middle ['finger'…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 4 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
BE SAG NA zuq-qúr NÍG.⸢TAB⸣ [15 u 150] / ana AN.TA-nu TÉŠ.BI ⸢kap⸣-[ṣa-at] / GÍR ina ŠÀ-šú GAR ina GIŠ.TUKUL ERIM ⸢NUN⸣ [GABA.RI NU TUKU-ši] / ina UD SUD šá NUN KUR-su ana ⸢KA⸣-[šú TUŠ-ab] / BE SILIM GÍR 15 ⸢ZÉ⸣ [BÙR ŠUB]—AŠ.[TE GAR-MEŠ] / BE 150 ZÉ [ṣa-mid] / ⸢BE⸣ [ina] SAG EDIN [ŠU.SI x x x] / [BE x x x]+x ⸢x x x x x x⸣ / [BE AN].⸢TA⸣-ti DU ḫa-si-si GAR / [BE U]—⸢MUR⸣ MURUB₄ SUḪUŠ-sà KÉŠ-is /…
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 P238341.
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/P238341/..
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/P238341/.
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