RMA 069a (P236942)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 069a |
|---|---|
| ID | P236942 |
| 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 the moon] becomes visible in Sivan (III) on the 30th day: the Ahlamû will de[vour] the wealth of the Westland. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If at the moon's appearance the west wi[nd blows]: in that month disease ... [...]. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | Bad for the Westland [......] ... [......]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'1'–r 2'2' | [From NN], son of [......]. |
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 {iti}SIG₄ UD 30-KAM₂ IGI-⸢ir⸣ | |
| 2 | ⸢ṭu⸣-uh-du MAR.TU{[ki]} | |
| 3 | ah-la-mu-u₂ ik-[kal] | |
| 4 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ {im}MAR.[TU DU] | |
| 5 | ina ITI BI mur-ṣu li-[x x x] | |
| 6 | [lu]-um-nu ša KUR—⸢MAR⸣.[TU{ki]} | |
| 7 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ na ⸢ak⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 2' | DUMU [x x x x x] | |
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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