RMA 033 (P237320)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 033 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237320 |
| 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 [2:15] o 33– | Mars, which stan[ds] inside Scorpius, is about to move out; until the 25th of [Tammuz (IV)] it will move out of Scorpius; and its radiance is fallen. Let the king my lord be happy; the king should be very glad, (but) until (Mars) goes out, let the king guard himself. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | From Rašil 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 30 ina UD 01-KAM₂ IGI-ir | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 3 | {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 4 | ša₂ ina ŠA₃ {mul}GIR₂.TAB u₂-zu-[uz-zu] | |
| 5 | a-na a-ṣe-e pa-⸢ni⸣-[šu₂] | |
| 6 | il-ta-[kan] | |
| 7 | a-di UD 25-KAM₂ ša₂ {iti}[ŠU] | |
| 8 | ul-tu {mul}GIR₂.TAB uṣ-[ṣi] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₃ ša₂-ru-ru-šu₂ ma-aq-[tu] | |
| 2 | ŠA₃ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia lu ṭa-a-[bi] | |
| 3 | LUGAL ma-aʾ-diš lu ha-⸢di⸣ | |
| 4 | a-di uṣ-ṣu-u₂ | |
| 5 | ma-ṣar-ti ša₂ ram-ni-šu₂ | |
| 6 | LUGAL li-iṣ-ṣur | |
| 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)
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