RMA 195 (P237151)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 195 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237151 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | If Jupiter stands in front of Mars: there will be barley; animals will fall, variant: a large army will fall. |
| Obverse [2:5] o 33–o 55 | If Jupiter and the False Star meet: a god will devour, variant: the gods will deliberate about the land. "They will deliberate": To deliberate (is) to consult one another. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | If Mars comes close to Jupiter: there will be a severe miqtu-disease in the land. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88– | If the risings of Jupiter and of a(nother) planet are equal: evil will happen to all lands. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | If the red planet and the big star come close: fall of cattle. The red planet is Mars, the big star is Jupiter. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | — Mars comes close to Jupiter. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | If a strange star comes close to Jupiter: in this year the king of Akkad will die, but the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| Reverse [6:9] r 77–r 99 | This is a bad sign for all lands. Let the king my lord perform a namburbi ritual and so make its evil pass by. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | From Nabû-iqiša of Borsippa. |
Transliteration (ATF)
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| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}SAG.ME.GAR ana IGI {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu GUB-iz | |
| 2 | ŠE-im TUK-ši u₂-ma-mu ŠUB-ut KI.MIN ERIM GAL ŠUB-ut | |
| 3 | 1 {mul}SAG.ME.GAR u {mul}sa-ar-ri UŠ-MEŠ | |
| 4 | DINGIR KU₂ KI.MIN DINGIR-MEŠ UGU KUR uš-ta-ad-da-nu | |
| 5 | uš-ta-ad-da-nu šu-ta-du-nu mit-lu-uk | |
| 6 | 1 {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu ana {mul}SAG.ME.GAR TE | |
| 7 | mi-iq-ti dan-nu ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 8 | 1 {mul}SAG.ME.GAR u {mul}UDU.IDIM | |
| 9 | MUL-MEŠ-šu₂-nu mit-ha-ru | |
| 10 | HUL-tim KUR-MEŠ GAR-an | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}UDU.IDIM SA₅ u MUL—GAL TE-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ŠUB-tim bu-lum {mul}UDU.IDIM SA₅ {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 3 | MUL—GAL {mul}ŠUL.PA.E₃.A | |
| 4 | {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu ana {d}ŠUL.PA.E₃ TE-ma | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}SAG.ME.GAR {mul}MIN₃-ma TE-šu₂ | |
| 6 | ina MU BI LUGAL URI{ki} UŠ₂-ma BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 7 | GISKIM an-ni-ti HUL ša KUR-MEŠ ši-i | |
| 8 | NAM.BUR₂.BI LUGAL be-li₂ li-pu-uš-ma | |
| 9 | HUL-šu₂ lu-u₂-še-ti-iq | |
| 10 | ša₂ {1}{d}AG—BA-ša₂ DUMU BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
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