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

[Should] Esarhaddon, king of A[ssyria, strive and plan]? Should he send [magnates and governors], together with men, horses, [and an army, as great as they wish], against Kaštaritu [of Karkašš]î and the t[roops (allied) with him], to wage war at the c[ity K]asasu? I[f he, having planned, sends them],

will the magnates and governors, (with) the army of [Esa]rhaddon, king of Assyria, conquer [that city] and will they, as long as they are in the district of K[arkaššî], march about [wherever] they wish?

Will they escape from the troops of the Medes, or [from the troops of the ...], or from the troops of the Manneans, or from [any other] fierce enemy?

Will they stay a[live and w]e[ll], will they be saved, will they [escape] and evade them? Will they [come out] safely fr[om the district] of Karkaššî?

Will they attain their objective? [......] Will they re[turn ali]ve from that (expedition), [set foot] on Assyrian soil and com[e before Esarh]addon, king of Assyria? Does your great divinity [know it]?

[Will he who can se]e, see it? [Will he who can hear], hear it?

(Break)

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[...] or [......]

[Disregard th]at [an unclean person has perfor]med [extispicy] in [this pla]ce.

Disregard that the ram (offered) to [your] divinity [for the performance of the extispicy is deficient or fa]ulty.

Disregard that he who touches the fore[head of the sheep is dressed in his ordinary soiled garments].

Disregard that I, the ha[ruspex your servant, am dressed in my ordinary soiled garments], have eaten, drunk or anointed myself with [anything unclean, have touched] the (libation) beer, the maṣhatu-flour, [the water, the container and the fire, have changed or altered the proceedings], or [have jumbled] the oracle query in [my mouth].

[Let them be taken out and put aside]!

I ask you, Šamaš, [great lo]rd, [whether, should Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, send] magnates and governor[s, with the army at their disposal], t[o the dis]trict of Karkaš[šî],

[they will escape from the troops of the Medes], fr[om the troops of the ..., from the troops of the Manneans, ......, march about wh]erever they wish [in the district of Karkaššî, retu]rn [alive] from there and set [foot] on Assyrian soil.

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

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