RMA 028 (P236917)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 028 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236917 |
| 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 moon becomes visible on the 1st day: reliable speech; [the land will become happy]. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | If the day reaches its normal length: [a reign of long days]. |
| Obverse [2:6] o 33–o 66 | If the moon at its appearance is covered with white patches: kursissu will attack and devour the sesame. — It is seen with [......]. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77– | If (the moon) [wears] a crown: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | [If] a star flares up and sets like a torch [fr]om west to east: the enemy will conquer a border town of mine in Elam; (fall) of the army of Elam. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | 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 30 ina UD 01-KAM₂ IGI KA GI.[NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃] | |
| 2 | 1 UD-me ana ŠID-ME-šu₂ GID₂.DA ⸢BALA⸣ [UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ] | |
| 3 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ UD ZALAG₂ e-di-[ih] | |
| 4 | ku-ru-sis-su ZI-ma | |
| 5 | {še}GIŠ.I₃ KU₂ | |
| 6 | KI [x x] IGI-ma | |
| 7 | 1 AGA [a-pir] LUGAL a-ša₂-ri-du-tu₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | DU-ak | |
| 2 | 1 MUL SUR-ma ki-ma di-pa-ri | |
| 3 | ⸢TA⸣ {d}UTU.ŠU₂ ana {d}UTU.E₃ ŠU₂ ina {kur}NIM{ki} | |
| 4 | ⸢URU⸣ ZAG-MU KUR₂ KUR <ŠUB>-tim | |
| 5 | ERIM-ni ša₂ {kur}NIM{ki} [x x] | |
| 6 | ša₂ {1}za-kir | |
Sources & licences
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