RMA 101a (P237335)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 101a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237335 |
| 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 the moon] is surrounded by a halo, and [Ma]rs stands in it: [fa]ll of domestic and wild anim[als]. |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44– | [If] the moon is surrounded by a halo, and the sun stands in it: there will be truth [in the land; the son] will speak the tru[th] with his father. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | — [Satu]rn stands [in the halo of] the moon. |
| Reverse [2:5] r 33–r 55 | [If the moon] is surrounded by a halo, and [two] stars s[tand] in the halo with the moon: a [rei]gn of long days. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [From] Nabû-iqbi [of] Cutha. |
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 | |
| 2 | {[mul}ṣal-bat]-a-nu ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB-[iz] | |
| 3 | [ŠUB]-tim bu-lum u nam-maš-[še-e] | |
| 4 | 1 30 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma | |
| 5 | {d}UTU ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB-iz | |
| 6 | [ina KUR] kit-ti GAL₂-ši | |
| 7 | [DUMU] KI AD-šu₂ kit-[ti] | |
| 8 | [i]-ta-mu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {[mul}UDU.IDIM].SAG.UŠ [ina ŠA₃] | |
| 2 | [TUR₃] 30 GUB-ma | |
| 3 | 1 30 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma | |
| 4 | 02 MUL-MEŠ ina TUR₃ KI 30 ⸢GUB⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 5 | ⸢BALA⸣ UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 6 | [ša₂] {1}{d}AG—iq-bi | |
| 7 | [DUMU] GU₂.DU₈.A{ki} | |
Sources & licences
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