RMA 226 (P236972)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 226 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236972 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [Me]rcury became visible in the west [wit]h the Pleiades. It will keep getting higher [...] into the Old Man: rain and flood. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | [If] the star of Marduk [becomes visible in] the beginning of the ye[ar]: in this [ye]ar his furrow will pro[sper]. |
| Obverse [7:8] o 88–o 88 | From Nadinu. |
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 | {[mul]}⸢UDU⸣.IDIM.GUD.UD ina {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A | |
| 2 | [it]-⸢ti⸣ MUL.MUL it-tan-mar | |
| 3 | a-na ŠA₃-bi {mul}ŠU.GI [x x x] | |
| 4 | iš-ta-naq-qa-a | |
| 5 | A.AN u A.KAL | |
| 6 | 1 MUL—{d}AMAR.UTU [ina] SAG ⸢MU⸣ [IGI] | |
| 7 | ⸢MU⸣ BI AB.SIN₂-šu₂ ⸢SI⸣.[SA₂] | |
| 8 | ša₂ {1}na-di-nu | |
Sources & licences
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