RMA 208 (P237074)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 208 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237074 |
| 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 | Venus disappeared in the west. |
| Obverse [1:4] o 22–o 44 | If Venus in Ab (V) descends darkly to the horizon and sets: there will be a fall of Elam. |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55– | If Venus in Ab (V), from the 1st to the 30th day, disappears in the west: there will be rains; the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | During this month (Venus) will become visible in the east in Leo. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From Nergal-eṭir. |
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 {mul}dil-bat ina {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A TUM₃ | |
| 2 | 1 {mul}dil-bat ina {iti}NE ad-riš | |
| 3 | uš-⸢tak-ti⸣-it-ma ir-bi | |
| 4 | ŠUB-tim NIM.MA{ki} GAL₂-ši | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}dil-bat ina {iti}NE TA UD 01-KAM | |
| 6 | EN UD 30-KAM₂ ina {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A TUM₃ | |
| 7 | A.AN-MEŠ GAL₂-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃ ITI a-ga-a ina {d}UTU.E₃ | |
| 3 | ina ŠA₃ {mul}UR.GU.LA in-nam-mar | |
| 4 | ša₂ {1}{d}U.GUR—KAR-ir | |
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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