RMA 079 (P237286)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 079 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237286 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [If the moon] becomes visible in Tebet (X) on the 30th day: the Ahlamû will devour Subartu; a foreigner will rule the Westland. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55– | [If] the moon's horns at its appearance are [sh]ort and not [bl]unt: there will be a good word in the land. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | 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 30 ina {iti}AB UD 30-KAM₂ IGI-ir | |
| 2 | {[kur]}⸢SU⸣.BIR₄{ki} ah-la-mu-u₂ KU₂ | |
| 3 | ⸢EME⸣ a-hi-tum | |
| 4 | [KUR] MAR.TU{ki} EN-el | |
| 5 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ SI-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 6 | [ku]-ra-a u₃ la [ke]-pa | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-mat SIG₅-tim ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 2 | ša₂ {1}{d}U.GUR—KAR-ir | |
Sources & licences
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