SAA 04 317. Query Concerning an Illness of Assurbanipal (PRT 106) [medical]

(1) The 'station' is present. If the 'paths' are two, and they lie separately: change of mind, change of spirit. The expedition you have planned will collapse and you will undertake another. The plans of kings in chamber will come to naught, and they will conceive others.

(5) If you make an extispicy for the practice of medicine, the physician shall not touch the patient: the diviner shall not make a prognosis.

(7) A deceitful omen.

(8) A bifurcation faces in its middle the gall bladder. If the 'well-being' is like the HAL-sign: diminution.

(9) The 'path' on the left of the gall bladder and the 'base of the throne' are present. The 'increment' is normal.

(10) If there is a 'foot'-mark in the middle of the middle surface of the 'finger,' it is the foot-mark of an ecstatic of the enemy's country.

(11) The upper part extends beyond the surface of the right lung. The coils of the colon are 16 in number, and are of equal height.

(13) The base of the middle 'finger' of the lung is 'loose.' If the top of the breast-bone is split in the center and its left side lies on its back: abandonment of a city. For warfare: downfall of a notable.

(15) If the vertebrae are visible: nanmurtu.

(16) There are 5 unfavorable features.

(17) Assurbanipal, king of Assyria, a king created by you, whose present condition is not good,

(19) (and) the nature of whose illness, light or serious, is known to your great divinity —

(r 1) Month Iyyar (II), 26th day, eponymy of Sagab (651).

(r 2) Marduk-šumu-uṣur, Dannaya, Sin-šarru-ibni, reporters.