RMA 277ab (P236949)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 277ab |
|---|---|
| ID | P236949 |
| 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 | [...] ... turned. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [— ...] stands in front of Pabilsag. |
| Obverse [2:5] o 33–o 55 | [If ......] Scorpius stands: there will be [...] in the land. [The sting of Scorpius] is Pabilsag. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | will dwell in p[eace; the gods] will listen to prayers and answer [the diviner's queries]. |
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 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ta hi is-sa-hur | |
| 2 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ina IGI {d}PA.BIL.SAG GUB-az-ma | |
| 3 | [x x x] {mul}GIR₂.TAB GUB-iz | |
| 4 | [x x]+⸢x⸣-tum ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 5 | [zi-qit {mul}GIR₂.TAB] {mul}PA.BIL.SAG | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [šub-tum ne-eh]-⸢tum⸣ TUŠ-ab | |
| 2 | [DINGIR-MEŠ] ⸢taṣ-li⸣-tu₂ še-mu-u | |
| 3 | [te-ret {lu₂]}⸢HAL⸣ i-tap-pa-lu | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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