ABL 0477 (P237237)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0477 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237237 |
| 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/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | Concerning the solar eclipse about which the king wrote to me: "Will it or will it not take place? Send a definite word!" |
| Obverse [5:14] o 66– | An eclipse of the sun, like one of the moon, never escapes me; should it not be clear to me and should I have failed (to observe it), I would not find out about it. |
| Reverse [4:13] r 55– | Now since it is the month to watch the sun and the king is in the open country, for that reason I wrote to the king: "The king should pay attention, whether it occurs or not." |
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 | a-na UGU AN.MI | |
| 2 | {d}UTU ša₂ LUGAL iš-pu-ra-an-[ni] | |
| 3 | um-ma i-šak-ka-nu | |
| 4 | ul i-šak-ka-nu | |
| 5 | a-mat pa-ri-is-tu₂ | |
| 6 | šup-ra AN.MI {d}UTU | |
| 7 | ki-i ša₂ {d}30 | |
| 8 | a-na ŠU.2-ia | |
| 9 | ul a-ṣi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | it-ti-i | |
| 2 | la eb-bi-ma | |
| 3 | u am-qu-tam-ma | |
| 4 | ul a-lam-mad-su | |
| 5 | en-na aš₂-šu₂ ša₂ ITI | |
| 6 | EN.NUN ša₂ {d}UTU | |
| 7 | šu-u₂ u LUGAL ina EDIN šu-u | |
| 8 | a-na UGU-hi ana LUGAL | |
| 9 | aš₂-pu-ra um-ma | |
| 10 | LUGAL PI.2 | |
| 11 | liš-kun-ma | |
| r.e. | ||
| 12 | ki-i i-ba-aš₂-ši | |
| 13 | u ki-i ia-aʾ-num | |
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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