RMA 222 (P237294)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 222 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237294 |
| 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] 11–22 | If a planet becomes visible in Elul (VI): rising of the harvest, plenitude of grain. |
| Obverse [2:5] 33–55 | If the stars of Leo ...: the king will be victorious wherever he goes. |
| Obverse [5:10] 66– | If Leo is dark: lions and wolves will rage and cut off travel to the Westland. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Ṭabiya. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 {mul}UDU.IDIM ina {iti}KIN IGI-ir | |
| 2 | ša₂-qe₂-e BURU₁₄ na-pa-aš₂ ni-is-sa-bu | |
| 3 | 1 {mul}UR.MAH MUL-MEŠ-šu₂ ul-tap-pu-u₂ | |
| 4 | LUGAL a-šar il-la-ku | |
| 5 | li-is-su | |
| 6 | 1 {mul}UR.GU.LA a-⸢dir⸣ | |
| 7 | UR.MAH-MEŠ u UR.BAR.RA-[MEŠ] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | in-nam-da-ru-ma | |
| 2 | a-lak-ti KUR—MAR.TU KUD-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}ṭa-bi-ia | |
Sources & licences
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