DT 084 (unpublished unassigned ?)


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t.e. 1t.e. 1	i-na a-mat ^dEN u ^dGAŠAN-ía liš-lim	By the command of Bēl and Bēltīya, may (this endeavour) be successful!
Obverse
o 1o 1	BE^ma šu-ma-at ši-bu u mu-kal-lim-ti šá ⸢is⸣-[ri a-na IGI-ka]	"If you have the omen entries, (their) old versions, and the mukallimtu-commentary on Isru before you."

o 22	BE is-ri 15 ZÁLAG^ir ul-lu-uṣ lìb-bi ÉRIN[ⁿⁱ BE is-ri 15 ZÁLAG^ir ana IGI-ka]1	"If the right isru is bright, the army will rejoice" (= Šumma Isru I 1). [If you have "If the right isru is bright" (ibid.) before you,]
o 33	IGI pir-si ma-gal SA₅ ul-lu-⸢uṣ⸣ [lìb-bi ÉRINⁿⁱ]2	(you will find that it means) "If the surface of the pirsu is very red, [the army] will rejoice."
o 44	BE MAN^ú MU-NI ina is-ri šá 15 ⸢BÙR⸣ ŠUB-ma ŠÀ BÙR [ù IGI BÙR SA₅ BE is-ri 15 ZÁLAG^ir ta-qab-bi]3	[Second (possible) entry]: "If in the right isru there is a perforation, and the interior [and the surface of the perforation are red," you may say that "If the right isru is bright"]
o 55	⸢SA₅⸣ ZÁLAG GIM MUL ⸢ši⸣-[kin-šú (...)]	"it is red" means "it is bright, [its appearance] is like a star."
o 66	[BE šal-šú] ⸢MU⸣-NI lar-sin-ni 15 ZÁLAG^ir ul-lu-⸢uṣ⸣ [lìb-bi ÉRINⁿⁱ lar-sin-nu is-ri ina EME]4	[Third (possible) entry]: "If the right larsinnu is bright, the [army] will rejoice." [Larsinnu means isru in the bilingual lists].
o 77	[BE 4-ú MU]-NI ina ŠÀ BÙR 15 U₄ ZÁLAG ŠUB^di LUGAL ana LÚ ⸢ŠÚR⸣[^iz-ma ...]	[Fourth (possible) entry]: "If the center of the right perforation there is a bright light, the king will be angry with the man." [...].
o 88	[x x x x x x x x] ⸢x ù x ni⸣ [...]	...
Reverse
r 1'r 1'	[šá ina] ⸢UGU ^kušma⸣-gal-lat šá TA ⸢x⸣ [...]5	[...] which was written on a parchment scroll from [...].
r 2'2'	⸢^m⸣^dUD.UD.UD.UD.UD.UD.UD.UD.UD-DIN-[su-E A šá ^m^dAMAR.UTU-NUMUN-DÙ]	Nabû-balāssu-iqbi, [son of Marduk-zēru-ibni,]
r 3'3'	A ^m^de₄-gi₇-ba-ti-la a-na ⸢ši⸣-[ta-as-si-šú iš-ṭur-ma]	descendant of Egibatila, [copied,]
r 4'4'	DÙ-ma ib-[ri]	made and collated it.

1As noted by Frahm GMTR 5 (2011) p. 112 and Heeßel KAL 5 (2012) p. 52 ad I 0-1, this first entry is also cited in Multābiltu I 21 (Koch AOAT 326 [2005] p. 95).

2For another attestation of the word pirsu (in OB extispicy), see Stol OLZ 103 (2008) p. 353.

3Lines 4-6, as attested in K.3978+ i 7-8 (CCP 3.4.1.A.a), are cited in CAD I/J 203b.

4The reading larsinnu, as opposed to PA-sin-nu, was established by von Soden, “Seltene akkadische Wörter”, StOr 46 (1975), p. 325; see also Cohen, Y. “Sheep Anatomical Terminology in the šumma immeru Omen Series and Additional Texts”, in J. C. Fincke (ed.), Divination as Science (2016), p. 89 fn. 46 [reading and references courtesy of Y. Cohen].

5The reading of the colophon follows Finkel CTMMA 2 (2005) p. 283 and Frahm GMTR 5 (2011) p. 172 and fn. 808.