RMA 050 (P237307)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 050 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237307 |
| 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 1'1'–o 2'2' | [If Scorpius'] horns [at its appearance] are twisted: [the enemy will attack, but] fall in battle. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | [If Scorpius'] horns carry radiance: [......] will conquer. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | [Sat]urn (is equivalent to) [the Scal]es [......]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [If the Scal]es' position is stable: there will be [recon]ciliation and peace in the land. |
| Reverse [2:8] r 33–r 88 | [The sign of the] appearance of [Sat]urn came about for the ki[ng my lord]. May [the king my lo]rd be ha[ppy; may the king my lord] be glad. |
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}GIR₂.TAB ina IGI.LAL-šu₂] SI-MEŠ-šu₂ zu-ʾu-u₂-ra | |
| 2' | {[lu₂}KUR₂ ZI-ma] ina {giš}TUKUL ŠUB-ut | |
| 3' | 1 {mul}GIR₂.TAB] SI-MEŠ-šu₂ ša₂-⸢ru-ru na⸣-ša₂-a | |
| 4' | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-šu₂ ŠU-su KUR-ad₂ | |
| 5' | {[mul}UDU.IDIM].SAG.UŠ {[mul}zi-ba-ni]-tum | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}zi-ba]-ni-tum KI.GUB-su GI.NA | |
| 2 | [taš-mu]-u₂ u SILIM-mu ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 3 | [x x ša₂] ta-mar-ti [o] | |
| 4 | {[mul}UDU].⸢IDIM⸣.SAG.UŠ a-na ⸢LUGAL⸣ | |
| 5 | [be-li₂-ia] ⸢it⸣-tab-[ši] | |
| 6 | [ŠA₃ ša₂ LUGAL be]-li₂-<ia> lu ṭa-a-[bi] | |
| 7 | [LUGAL be-li₂] lu ha-a-[di] | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ | |
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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