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RMA 002 (P236987)

Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationRMA 002
IDP236987
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreDivination
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22[If the moon] becomes visible on the 1st day: reliable speech; the land will become happy.
Obverse [2:5] o 33–If the day reaches its normal length: the days of the reign will become long.
Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1From Šapiku of [Borsippa].

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
o
11 30 UD 01-KAM₂ IGI-ir
2KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab
31 UD a-na ŠID-MEŠ-šu₂ GID₂.DA
4UD-MEŠ BALA-e GID₂.⸢DA⸣-MEŠ
r
1ša₂ {1}ša₂-pi-ku DUMU [BAR₂.SIPA{ki]}

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