Šamaš, great lord, give me a firm positive answer to what I am asking you!

Niq'a, mother of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who is now ill, and on whom the 'hand' of god Iqbi-damiq was placed in extispicy —

will it pass by unto sacrificial sheep and oxen?

If she is ill with this disease,

is it decreed and confirmed in a favorable case, by the command of your great divinity, Šamaš, great lord? Will he who can see, see it? Will he who can hear, hear it?

Disregard the (formulation) of today's case, be it good, be it faulty.

Disregard that a clean or an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep, or blocked the way of the sacrificial sheep.

Disregard that an unclean man or woman has come near the place of the extispicy and made it unclean.

Disregard that an unclean person has performed extispicy in this place.

Disregard that the ram (offered) to your divinity for the performance of the extispicy is deficient or faulty.

Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments, (or) has eaten, drunk, or anointed himself with anything unclean.

Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant, have eaten, drunk, or anointed myself with anything unclean, changed or altered the proceedings, or jumbled the oracle query in my mouth.

Let them be taken out and put aside!

I ask you, Šamaš, great lord:

Be present in this ram, place (in it) a firm positive answer, favorable designs, favorable, propitious omens by the oracular command of your great divinity, and may I see (them).

May (this query) go to your great divinity, O Šamaš, great lord, and may an oracle be given as an answer.