RMA 267a (P236907)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 267a |
|---|---|
| ID | P236907 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Divination |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | If the sky is covered with red: there will be abundance in the land. |
| Obverse [1:6] o 22–o 66 | Ṣillaya wrote to me by way of Šakin-šumi as follows: "I shall put you to death! Why do you say: 'Ṣillaya took away my property'? Munnabitu is witness against you" — |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77– | (I swear) by Bel [...] the witness is my adversary! Whatever he took away from my property is well known! |
| Reverse [1:7] r 22–r 77 | Everything about which I spoke in front of the king, and there is (some) about what I did not speak to the king, everything he took. He has removed my father's house from my hands, and continually he devises tricks and plots against my life. May the king my lord not abandon me! |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | From Zakir. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | 1 AN-e SA₅ ma-hi-iṣ HE₂.GAL₂ ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 2 | {1}ṣil-la-a ina ŠU.2 {1}GAR—MU il-tap-ra | |
| 3 | um-ma ana mi-tu-tu a-na-ad-di-ka | |
| 4 | um-ma mi-nam-ma ta-qab-bi um-ma | |
| 5 | {1}ṣil-la-a NIG₂.ŠID-ia it-ta-ši | |
| 6 | um-ma {1}mun-na-bit-tum {lu₂}mu-kin-ni-ka | |
| 7 | u {d}⸢EN x x⸣ {lu₂}EN—di-ni-ia₂ {lu₂}EN—di-ni-ia₂ {lu₂}mu-kin-nu | |
| b.e. | ||
| 8 | mi-nu-u₂ ina ŠA₃ NIG₂.ŠID-ia₂ ma-la | |
| r | ||
| 1 | iš-šu₂-u₂ ki-i la me-du-u₂ | |
| 2 | mim-ma ma-la ina pa-an LUGAL ad-bu-bu | |
| 3 | u i-ba-aš₂-ši ša₂ a-na LUGAL la aq-bu-u₂ | |
| 4 | gab-bu it-ta-ši ŠU.2-a ina E₂ AD-ia₂ | |
| 5 | ul-te-li u ka-a.a-ma-nu ni-ik-la-a-tum | |
| 6 | u₂-nak-ka-la ana UGU nap-ša₂-ti-ia₂ | |
| 7 | i-dab-bu-ub LUGAL EN la u₂-maš-šar-an-ni | |
| 8 | ša₂ {1}za-kir | |
Sources & licences
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