RMA 210 (P236916)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 210 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236916 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | If in Kislev (IX) from the 1st day to the 30th day Venus disappears in the east: there will be a famine of barley and straw in the land. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | The lord of kings will say: "The month is not (yet) finished, why did you write me good or bad (omens)?" The scribal art is not heard about in the market place. Let the lord of kings summon me on a day which is convenient to him, and I will investigate and speak to the king my lord. |
| Obverse [4:12] o 55– | From Ašaredu. |
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 ina {iti}GAN TA UD 01-KAM₂ EN UD 30-KAM | |
| 2 | {d}dil-bat ina {d}UTU.E₃ it-bal | |
| 3 | SU.KU₂ ŠE-im u IN.NU ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 4 | EN LUGAL-MEŠ i-qab-bi um-ma-a | |
| 5 | mi-nam-ma ITI ul ⸢qa⸣-ti | |
| 6 | u₃ SIG₅ u HUL taš-pu-ra | |
| 7 | ⸢ṭup⸣-šar-ru-ti i-na KI.LAM | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ul iš-šem-mi EN LUGAL-MEŠ | |
| 2 | UD-mu ša₂ pa-ni-šu₂ mah-ru | |
| 3 | re-ša₂-a liš-ši-ma lu-up-ru-us-ma | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia lu-uq-bi | |
| 5 | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-du | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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