RMA 115a (P237308)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 115a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237308 |
| 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 is surrounded by a halo, and [...] the Pleiades st[and] in it [...]. |
| Obverse [2:5] o 33–o 55 | If ditto, and the Pleiades [stand in it: women] will give birth to male children; [the king's land will defect from him], reduction [of grain ...]. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66– | If [2] star[s stand] inside the halo the halo [with the moon]: a reign of [long] days. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | If the moon is surrounded by a white halo: ... [...]. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | If the moon is surrounded by a (black)? halo: the month [holds rain; clouds] will be gathered [...]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From [NN]. |
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 | 30 TUR₃ NIGIN₂-ma [x x x x] | |
| 2 | MUL.MUL ina ŠA₃-šu₂ ⸢GUB⸣-[ma x x x] | |
| 3 | 1 KI.MIN-ma MUL.MUL [ina ŠA₃-šu GUB MI₂-ME] | |
| 4 | NITA-ME U₃.TU-ME [LUGAL KUR-su KUR₂-šu₂] | |
| 5 | nu-šur-re-[e ŠE-im x x x x] | |
| 6 | 1 ina ŠA₃ TUR₃ 02 MUL-[ME KI 30 GUB-ME] | |
| 7 | BALA UD-ME [GID₂.DA-ME] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 30 TUR₃ BABBAR NIGIN₂ UD [x x] | |
| 2 | 1 30 TUR₃ <GI₆> NIGIN₂ ITI [A.AN u₂-kal IM.DIRI-MEŠ] | |
| 3 | uk-taṣ-ṣa-ra [x x x] | |
| 4 | ša₂ {1}[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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