RMA 020 (P237310)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 020 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237310 |
| 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 [4:8] o 55– | If it hails in Shebat (XI): plenty for the people, rising of business. |
| Reverse [1:6] r 22–r 66 | Aššur, Šamaš, Nabû, and Marduk have granted a stable throne forever, for [long] days, to the king [my lord]. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [From] Nabû-iqbi. |
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-e UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | 1 ina {iti}ZIZ₂ NA₄ DU-ik | |
| 6 | nu-hu-uš UN-MEŠ [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša]-qe₂-e KI.LAM | |
| 2 | {[d]}aš-šur {d}UTU {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 3 | {[giš]}GU.ZA ša₂ ki-na-a-ti | |
| 4 | [a]-na da-riš a-na UD-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [GID₂].⸢DA⸣-MEŠ a-na LUGAL | |
| 6 | [be-li₂]-⸢ia⸣ it-tan-nu | |
| 7 | [ša₂ {1}{d}AG—iq-bi | |
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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