RMA 163 (P237321)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 163 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237321 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [If] on the 15th day the moon and sun are seen together: a strong enemy will raise his weapons against the land; the enemy will tear down my city gate. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If a planet becomes visible [in Ta]mmuz (IV): there will be deaths. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66– | If Cancer is dark: the ghost of a wronged person will seize the land, and there will be deaths in the land. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | From Nabû-ahhe-iddin. |
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 UD 15-KAM₂ 30 u₃ {d}UTU KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 2 | {lu₂}KUR₂ dan-nu {giš}TUKUL-MEŠ-šu₂ ana KUR IL₂-a | |
| 3 | KA₂.GAL URU-ia {lu₂}KUR₂ i-na-qar | |
| 4 | 1 {mul}UDU.IDIM [ina] {⸢iti⸣}ŠU IGI-ir | |
| 5 | NAM.UŠ₂-MEŠ GAL₂-MEŠ | |
| 6 | 1 {mul}AL.LUL a-dir | |
| 7 | UDUG hab-lim KUR DIB-bat-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | NAM.UŠ₂-MEŠ ina KUR GAL₂-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ša₂ {1}{d}AG—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—SUM.NA | |
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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