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SAA 8

SAA 9

SAA 10

SAA 13

SAA 16

SAA 18

unknown

Names

  • SAA 10 183

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Details

  • Neo-Assyrian
  • Written ca. 00.000.00.00
  • Kuyunjik (Nineveh)
  • Scholarly Letter
  • from diviners

Bibliography

SAA 10 183; LAS 340

SAA 10 183. Extispicy on the Roof of the Temple of Marduk (ABL 1278) [from diviners][via saao/saa10]

Obverse
o 1o 1

ina UGU -še-bu-u.MUŠEN šá taq-bu-u-ni

(1) Concerning the hoopoe about which you said: "It has been sent as a message" and concerning the temple of Marduk, we shall see a good month, and it (the ritual) should be performed; he does not know.

o 22

ma-a* šip-ru šú-u šap-ir ina UGU ÉdAMAR.UTU

o 33

ITI DÙG.GA -mur ù li-in--piš šu-ú

(3) Elul (VI) is a good month.

o 44

la u-da ITI.KIN DÙG.GA ù ina UGU dul-li

(4) Also, concerning the ritual of the haruspex, he does not know about the 2nd day; again, it is good. Let it be performed and let us be confident.

o 55

šá .ḪAL a-na UD 02-KAM la u-da tu-ra DÙG.GA-ma

o 66

li-in--piš-ma nir-ḫu-uṣ ù šum-ma

(6) Also, if it is feasible, why don't the guards and Perhu keep watch there, on account of a matter like this?

o 77

ta-ri-iṣ a-ta-a EN EN.NUN-MEŠ mpi-ir-ḫu

o 88

ina ŠÀ-bi la i-na-aṣ-ṣu-ru TA pa-an

o 99

a-bi-te šá ki-i an-ni-i

Reverse
r 1r 1

ú-la-a .ERIM-MEŠ la DÙG.GA ana E₁₁

(r 1) Alternatively, if it is not good to let the men go to the roof of the temple at dawn, some expedient must be formed on account of the bird (and) anything beyond it.

r 22

ina ŠÀ-bi ÙR šá ÉDINGIR ina kal-la-ma-ri

r 33

ni-ik-lu me-em-me-e-ni lu nak-la

r 44

TA pa-an MUŠEN TA pa-an me-me-ni a-ḫu-la

r 55

[ina] UGU ÙR šá ÉdAMAR.UTU šá LUGAL be- iq-bu-u-ni

(r 5) [Co]ncerning the roof of the temple of Marduk about which the king, my lord, spoke, it is good to perform (the ritual) there. Elul (VI) is a good month; and the 2nd day is suitable for extispicy. Let it be performed accordingly.

r 66

[ina] ŠÀ-bi DÙG.GA a-na e-pa-še ITI.KIN DÙG.GA

r 77

ù UD 02-KAM a-na ḪAL-ú-ti DÙG.GA-ma

r 88

ina pi-it-ti li-in--piš


Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, 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/P237937/.

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