RMA 223 (P236971)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 223 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236971 |
| 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 rises in Marchesvan (VIII): the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If Scorpius is black: therein will be reconciliation in the land. — Mercury stands in Scorpius. |
| Obverse [4:12] o 55– | If the bre[ast] of Scorpius, the goddess Išhara, at the renewing of her light is bright, her tail dark, her horns opposing each other: rain and flood will be early in the land; locusts will attack and devour the land; fall of cattle and shepherds' huts; [an enemy land ...] will be conquered. |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | [If ......] Scorpius [......]. |
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}APIN {mul}UDU.IDIM KUR-ha | |
| 2 | BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 3 | 1 {mul}GIR₂.TAB GI₆ ina ŠA₃-bi taš-mu-u₂ ina KUR I₃.GAL₂ | |
| 4 | {d}GUD.UD ina ŠA₃ {mul}GIR₂.TAB GUB-ma | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}GIR₂.TAB {d}iš-ha-ra ina GIBIL UD.DA-ša₂ | |
| 6 | ⸢GABA⸣-sa₃ nam-rat KUN-sa₃ e-ṭa-at | |
| 7 | SI-ME-ša₂ nin-mu-ra | |
| 8 | A.AN u A.KAL ina KUR i-har-ru-pu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | BURU₅-HI.A ZI-ma KUR KU₂ | |
| 2 | ŠUB-tim GUD-ME u gu-ub-ri | |
| 3 | [KUR KUR₂ x]+⸢x⸣ ik-kaš-šad | |
| 4 | 1 x x x x] {⸢mul⸣}GIR₂.TAB | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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