(1) [... Esarhad]don, ki[ng of Assyria, ......]?

(2) [...] Will he speak [evil things and] malicious [wor]ds [against] Esarhaddon, k[ing of Assyria, and make an insurrection and rebellion against him]?

(4) [Disregard the (formulation) of today's case], be it good, be it faulty, (and that) a clean or an unclean person has touched the sacrificial sheep.

(5) [Disregard that the ram (offered) to your divinity for the performance of the extis]picy is deficient [or faulty].

(6) [Disregard that he who touches the forehead of the sheep] is dressed in his [ordinary] soiled [garments], (or) has eaten (or) dr[unk] anything unclean.

(7) [Disregard that I, the haruspex your servant], am dressed in my [ordinary] soiled [garments], have eat[en or drunk] anything unclean, [have changed or altered the proceedings, (or that) the oracle query] has become jumbled (and) impai[red in] my [mouth].
[Let them be taken out and put asid]e!

(r 1) [I ask you, Šamaš, great lord, whether, (should) the subject] of this query, Esarhaddon, king of [Assyria], ap[point the man whose name he wr]ote [in this papyrus and placed] before your gre[at] divinity, [to a position of his choos]ing,

(r 4) [he will speak malicious words, evil things against Esarhaddon, king of] Assyria, and make insurrection and rebellion against him.

(r 7) [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)].