RMA 122 (P237323)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 122 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237323 |
| 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 13th day [the m]oon and sun are seen together: unre[liab]le speech; the ways of the land will not be straight; there will be steps of the enemy; the enemy will plunder in the land. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | If the moon in Ab (V) is not seen with the sun on the 14th or on the 15th day: there will be deaths; a god (i.e. pestilence) will devour. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77– | From Zakir. |
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 13-[KAM₂] 30 u 20 KI a-ha-meš IGI-ME | |
| 2 | KA NU ⸢GI.NA⸣ A.RA₂ KUR NU SI.SA₂ | |
| 3 | GIR₃.2 KUR₂ ⸢GAL₂⸣ KUR₂ ina KUR TI-qi₂ | |
| 4 | 1 BE-ma 30 ina {iti}⸢NE UD⸣ 14-KAM₂ lu-u₂ | |
| 5 | UD 15-KAM₂ KI 20 NU IGI UŠ₂-ME GAL₂-[ME] | |
| 6 | DINGIR KU₂ | |
| 7 | ša₂ {1}za-kir | |
Sources & licences
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