RMA 243b (P237285)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 243b |
|---|---|
| ID | P237285 |
| 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 in month M[archesvan (VIII) ......] people [......]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If a cl[oud] confronts the sun at its rising: plenty (for) all lands. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | If at the beginning of the year the Pleiades stand on the left of Venus: the enemy, variant: a flood will disrupt the harvest. |
| 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 ina {iti}⸢APIN⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | UN-MEŠ gam [x x x x x] | |
| 3 | 1 20 ina KUR-šu₂ IM.[DIRI] ⸢im-hur⸣-šu₂ | |
| 4 | nu-huš KUR.KUR [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 ina SAG MU MUL.MUL | |
| 2 | ina KAB {mul}dil-bat GUB | |
| 3 | {lu₂}KUR₂ A.KAL BURU₁₄ u₂-tal₂-lal | |
| 4 | ša₂ {1}{d}U.GUR—KAR-ir | |
Sources & licences
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