RMA 218a (P237170)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 218a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237170 |
| 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 Mercury [......] in the constellation [......]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If a planet [...] to the constellation [...]: Adad [will devastate]. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | If a planet [becomes visible] in Iyyar (II) or in Sivan (III): the flood will come and irrigate the f[ields]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | From Rašil, son [of Nurzanu]. |
| Reverse [1:7] r 22–r 77 | The king [should ...] brick-masons; one farmer whom the king [......] five months for [...] work [......] of [the king] my lord. |
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⸣}UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD [x x x x] | |
| 2 | i-na ŠA₃-bi {mul}⸢x⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 3 | 1 {d}UDU.IDIM a-na {mul}[x x x x] | |
| 4 | {d}IM [RA-iṣ] | |
| 5 | 1 {d}UDU.IDIM ina {iti}GUD [o] | |
| 6 | lu-u₂ ina {iti}SIG₄ [IGI] | |
| 7 | A.KAL DU-ma A.[ŠA₃ A.QAR] | |
| 8 | i-ma-kir | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša₂ {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR DUMU {1}nu-ur₂-za-nu] | |
| 2 | LUGAL u₂-ra-ši [x x x x] | |
| 3 | 01-en {lu₂}ENGAR ša₂ ⸢LUGAL⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4 | 05 ITI-MEŠ a-⸢na⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 5 | dul-[lu x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | ⸢x⸣ [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 7 | be-li₂-ia₂ [x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x]+⸢x⸣ man ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
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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