RMA 201 (P236979)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 201 |
|---|---|
| ID | P236979 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | 1 "double-hour" of night had passed; a meteor flashed from the north to the south. |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55– | Its signs are favorable for the intentions of the king. The king of Akkad will reach his goal. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Ašaredu the older, servant of the king. |
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 | 01 KASKAL.GID₂ MI it-ta-lak | |
| 2 | MUL—GAL TA {im}SI.SA₂ | |
| 3 | a-na {im}U₁₈.LU | |
| 4 | iṣ-ṣa-ru-ur | |
| 5 | i-da-ti-ša₂ a-na | |
| 6 | ṣi-bu-ti ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 7 | ṭa-ba-ti | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL URI{ki} ši-pir-šu₂ | |
| 2 | i-kaš-šad | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-du IGI-u₂ | |
| 4 | ARAD ša₂ LUGAL | |
Sources & licences
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