RMA 018 (P237300)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 018 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237300 |
| 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 the moon becomes visible on the 1st day: reliable speech; the land will become happy. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | [If] the day reaches its normal length: a reign of long days. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55– | [If] the moon at its appearance wears a crown: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | From Bel-naṣir. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | Bel-epuš, a diviner from Babylon, is very sick. Let the king command a physician to go and see him. |
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 UD 01-KAM₂ IGI-ir | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 3 | 1 UD ana ŠID-MEŠ-šu₂ GID₂.DA-ik | |
| 4 | BALA UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ AGA a-pir | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL a-ša₂-ri-du-tu₂ DU-ak | |
| 2 | ša₂ {1}{d}EN—ŠEŠ-ir | |
| 3 | {1}{d}EN—DU₃-uš DUMU TIN.TIR{ki} {lu₂}HAL | |
| 4 | ma-a-du ma-ru-uṣ | |
| 5 | LUGAL liq-bi-ma {lu₂}A.ZU | |
| 6 | lil-lik-ma li-mur-šu₂ | |
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
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