RMA 218 (P236969)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 218 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236969 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | If a planet becomes visible in Iyyar (II): the flood will come and irrigate the fields. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If the star of Marduk reaches the Pleiades: Adad will devastate. |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | On the 14th day the moon and sun will not be seen together, on the 15th day one god will be seen with the other: the king of Subartu will have no rival. I have heard (that) [from the mou]th of my father. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [From] Bel-ahhe-eriba. |
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}GUD {d}UDU.IDIM IGI-ir | |
| 2 | A.KAL DU-ma A.ŠA₃ A.QAR i-ma-kir | |
| 3 | 1 MUL—{d}AMAR.UTU MUL.MUL KUR-ud | |
| 4 | {d}IM RA-iṣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 14-KAM₂ 30 u 20 KI a-ha-meš | |
| 2 | ul in-nam-ma-ru | |
| 3 | UD 15-KAM₂ DINGIR KI DINGIR in-nam-ma-ru | |
| 4 | LUGAL SU.BIR₄{ki} GABA.RI | |
| 5 | NU TUK-ši | |
| 6 | [ina pi]-i AD-ia še-ma-a-ku | |
| 7 | [ša {1}{d}EN—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—eri-ba | |
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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