RMA 227 (P237315)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 227 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237315 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | [If] the stars of [Ant]asurra [...] ...: [...] will come to the land. Antasurra is the mišhu of Sagittarius. — M[erc]ury stands inside Sagittarius. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | [...] a reign of long days and well-being of the king of the world. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | Mercury [became visible] in the east; its period will not pass; its [...] is made manifest. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | Let [the king] my lord be happy. (It means) [well-being] for the king, the son of the king, [and] his wives. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | [From Raš]il the older, servant of the king. |
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}AN].⸢TA⸣.SUR.RA MUL-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 2 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ DIR | |
| 3 | [x x x x] ana KUR DU-kam | |
| 4 | {⸢mul⸣}AN.TA.SUR.RA | |
| 5 | mi-ši-ih {d}PA.BIL.SAG | |
| 6 | {⸢mul⸣}[UDU.IDIM].GUD.UD ina ŠA₃ {mul}PA.BIL.SAG | |
| 7 | GUB-ma | |
| 8 | [x x] BALA UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 9 | ⸢u₃⸣ ša₂-lam LUGAL ŠU₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {[mul]}UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD ina {giš}NIM | |
| 2 | [it-ta-mar] ⸢x⸣ a-dan-šu₂ ul it-ti-iq | |
| 3 | [x x x]-šu₂ šu-pi | |
| 4 | [ŠA₃ ša₂ LUGAL] be-li₂-ia lu ṭa-a-bi | |
| 5 | [DI-mu a]-na LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL | |
| 6 | [u₃ MI₂]—E₂.GAL-MEŠ-šu₂ MI₂]—E₂.GAL-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [ša₂ {1}TUK]-⸢ši⸣—DINGIR ARAD ša₂ LUGAL IGI-u | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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