RMA 236a (P237317)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 236a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237317 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | If Canc[er comes close to the Plough star]: the plough of the land [will be hung on a peg, there will be] inundation of the land. [......] on the ground; dispersal of Elam and ... [...]. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66– | If a strange star [comes close] to Can[cer]: the ruler will die. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | If Mars [comes close] to [Cancer]: the city ... [......]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Ahhešâ of Uruk. |
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}AL.[LUL ana {mul}APIN TE] | |
| 2 | {giš}APIN KUR ina {⸢giš⸣}[KAK in-na-lal] | |
| 3 | šur-du-ut KUR [GAR-an x x] | |
| 4 | ina qaq-qa-ri i-⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 5 | BIR-ah NIM.MA{ki} u ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 6 | 1 {mul}MIN₃-ma ana {mul}AL.[LUL TE] | |
| 7 | NUN UŠ₂ [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu ana {mul}[AL.LUL TE] | |
| 2 | URU ⸢DIB⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}ŠEŠ-MEŠ-ša₂-a {lu₂}UNUG{[ki}a.a] | |
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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