SAA 04 281. Will the Elamites Mobilize and Join the War? (PRT 128) [military and political]


Obverse
o 1o 1	BE SUḪUŠ NA šá-miṭ EGIR ERIM-MU KÚR ⸢TI⸣	(1) If the base of the 'station' is protruding pointedly: the enemy will take the vanguard of my army.
o 22	BE ina SAG NA GU GIL ik-rib NUN DINGIR ul ⸢iš⸣-me	(2) If a filament lies crosswise in the top of the 'station': the god will not listen to the prince's prayer. In warfare: the prince's army will not achieve its enterprise.
o 33	ina GIŠ.TUKUL ERIM NUN ŠÀ.SÈ.SÈ.KI-šá NU KUR-ád
o 44	BE SILIM RA-iṣ BE ina DÙN 15 BÙR ŠUB-di	(4) The 'well-being' is destroyed. There is a hole in the right side of the 'pouch.'
o 55	BE KI di-ḫu TI IGI-it SAG ZÉ DU₈	(5) It takes the place of a cyst. If the front of the top of the gall bladder is split, it is a split referring to the diviner's negligence. A pole will break. The merchant will lose his money bag on the (business) trip he is taking, and will return empty-handed.
o 66	DU₈ e-gu-ti DUMU—LÚ.ḪAL GIŠ.me^*-še-du TAR-ir
o 77	DUMU DAM.QAR ina KASKAL DU-ku ki-is-su
o 88	ú-ḫal-laq SUD^*-sa GUR-ra
o 99	BE ina 150 ZÉ DU₈ SUḪUŠ U IGI	(9) If there is a fissure in the left side of the gall bladder which faces the base of the 'finger': niphu, false prediction.
o 1010	IZI.GAR KA NU GI.NA
o 1111	BE ⸢SAG⸣ EDIN 15 U DU₈	(11) The [t]op of the right surface of the lung is split.
o 1212	⸢BE AN⸣.TA-ti DU-ik U—MUR MURUB₄	(12) The upper part is elevated. The middle 'finger' of the lung
o 1313	[x x] ⸢LAM^?⸣ GUD	(13) [...]...
o 1414	[x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ GAR-ma 150 U SAG MUR IGI SIG₅	(14) [...] is present, and the left side of the 'finger' faces the top of the lung. Favorable.
o 1515	[x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ERIM-ni DINGIR-MEŠ-šú ⸢TAG₄⸣-šú	(15) [...] my army's gods [will aban]don it.
	rest broken away	(Break)
Reverse
rr	beginning broken away; traces of one line
r 1'1'	[x x x] ⸢UGU⸣ MUR GÌR ⸢x ŠÀ.NIGIN 16⸣	(r 1) [...] over the lung there is a 'foot'-mark. The coils of the colon are 16 in number.
r 2'2'	[x] ⸢TAG⸣-MEŠ ina ŠÀ	(r 2) There are [... unfavo]rable features in the extispicy.
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r 3'3'	TA UD 08-KÁM šá ITI an-ni-i ITI.NE.GAR	(r 3) From the 8th day of this month, Ab (V), to the 8th day of Elul (VI), will the Elamite army gather, get organized, march, (and) fight with the men and army of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria? Unfavorable.
r 4'4'	a-di UD 08-KÁM šá ITI.KIN LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ KUR^*.NIM.MA.KI-MEŠ
r 5'5'	up-taḫ-ḫa-ru-ú uk-taṣ-ṣa-ru-ú
r 6'6'	DU-MEŠ-i GIŠ.TUKUL MURUB₄ u MÈ
r 7'7'	KI LÚ.ERIM-MEŠ Á.KAL šá ^mAN.ŠÁR—DÙ—A
r 8'8'	MAN KUR—aš-šur ip-pu-šú-ú ul DÙG.GA
	(blank)
r 9'9'	[x x x]+⸢x a a⸣ [x x x]	(r 9') (Break)
r 10'10'	^dMAŠ^* ⸢x⸣+[x x] ⸢x x⸣+[x x] eš	(r 9') (Break)
r 11'11'	IM ^mdan-a.a^* LÚ^*.[x x (x) ^maš]-⸢šur⸣—KALAG-⸢in^?⸣—[x]+⸢x⸣	(r 11) Tablet of Dannay[a, eunuch; Ašš]ur-da''[in-šarru], reporter. Month Adar (XII), [...day, epo]nym year of S[agab] (651).
r 12'12'	LÚ.EN—UMUŠ ITI.⸢ŠE^?⸣ [UD x-KAM lim]-me ^m⸢sa^*⸣-[gab]

Adapted from Ivan Starr, Queries to the Sungod: Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria (State Archives of Assyria, 4), 1990. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2018, 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/P238054/.