RMA 112a (P237318)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 112a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237318 |
| 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 Cancer stands in it: [the king] of Akkad will extend the life. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | The moon is surrounded by a river: it will rain. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | — It is surrounded by a halo [...]. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | If the moon [is surrounded] by a halo, and Regulus stands in it: in this year women will give birth to male children. |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77– | [If the moon] is surrounded by a halo, and two stars stand inside the halo with the moon: a reign of [long] days. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Nabû-iqiša of Borsippa. |
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 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma {mul}AL.⸢LUL⸣ ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB-iz | |
| 2 | [LUGAL] ⸢URI{ki⸣} ba-la-ṭu ⸢ur-rak⸣ | |
| 3 | 30 ID₂ NIGIN-mi A.AN ŠUR-nun | |
| 4 | ⸢TUR₃⸣ [x x x] NIGIN-mi-[ma] | |
| 5 | 1 30 TUR₃ [NIGIN-ma] {mul}LUGAL ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB-iz | |
| 6 | MU BI MI₂-MEŠ NITA-MEŠ ul-la-da | |
| 7 | 1 30 ⸢TUR₃⸣ NIGIN-ma ina ŠA₃ TUR₃ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 02 MUL-MEŠ KI {d}30 GUB-MEŠ | |
| 2 | BALA UD-MEŠ [GID₂.DA]-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}{d}AG—BA-ša₂ ⸢DUMU⸣ BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
Sources & licences
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