RMA 202 (P237287)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 202 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237287 |
| 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] a meteor flashes from eas[t] to west and sets, and interrupts its train and puts it (again): the enemy's troops will fall in battle. |
| Obverse [4:10] o 55– | If a star which is like a torch, i.e. like a reed torch, flashes from east to west and sets: the main army of the enemy will fall. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | Two meteors flashed in the middle watch after each other. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | From Ašaredu the older. |
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—GAL TA {d}UTU.E₃.[A] | |
| 2 | a-na {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A SUR-ma ŠU₂-bi | |
| 3 | u mi-ših-šu₂ u₂-mar-ri-ma GAR | |
| 4 | ERIM-ni KUR₂ ina ME₃ ŠUB-ut | |
| 5 | 1 MUL ša₂ GIM IZI.GAR | |
| 6 | GIM GI.IZI.LA₂ | |
| 7 | TA {d}UTU.E₃ ana {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A | |
| 8 | SUR-ma ŠU₂-bi ERIM {lu₂}KUR₂ | |
| 9 | ina DUGUD-šu₂ ŠUB-ut | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 02 MUL—GAL-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ina EN.NUN—MURUB₄.BA | |
| 3 | EGIR a-ha-meš | |
| 4 | iṣ-ṣar-ru | |
| 5 | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-du | |
| 6 | IGI-u₂ | |
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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