RMA 251a (P236994)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 251a |
|---|---|
| ID | P236994 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [If a fog] rolls in [in Tebet (X)]: eclipse [of all lands]. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [If there is fog in the land]: plenty for the people. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [If there is continually fog in the land]: the dynasty of the land will achieve world rule. |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44– | [...] ... is not reaching its course; [......] spoke, his lawsuit will not go well; [......] kept doing, his lawsuit will not [......] ... punishment of a god [......] look at me [......]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [......] city god [...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [From] Zakir. |
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}AB IM.DUGUD] iq-tur AN.MI [KUR.KUR] | |
| 2 | 1 ina KUR IM.DUGUD GAL₂] nu-huš UN-ME | |
| 3 | 1 ina KUR IM.DUGUD sa]-⸢dir⸣ BALA KUR kiš-šu₂-tu₂ i-kaš-šad | |
| 4 | [x x x] IDIM har-ra-an-šu₂ ul ka-ši-[id] | |
| 5 | [x x x] id-bu-ub di-in-šu₂ ul SI.⸢SA₂⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ u₂-še-eb-ru di-in-šu₂ ul ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 7 | [x x x x]-pu-uš en-ne₂-et DINGIR | |
| 8 | [x x x x] id HU UD nap-lu-us-an-ni | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 10 | [x x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x x] hu [x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x x] DINGIR URU [x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x x] E₂ [x x x x x x] | |
| 4' | [ša₂ {1}za-kir | |
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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