RMA 143 (P237455)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 143 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237455 |
| 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 14th day the moon and sun [are s]een together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding; the foundation of the king's throne will become stable. |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77– | If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Scorpius stands in it: entu-priestesses will be made pregnant; men, variant: lions, will begin to rage and block the road. |
| 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 14-KAM₂ {d}30 u {d}UTU KI a-ha-meš [IGI]-MEŠ | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃-bi KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 3 | DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} ana SIG₅-tim i-ha-as-sa-su | |
| 4 | 1 30 u {d}UTU šu-ta-tu-u₂ | |
| 5 | LUGAL KUR uz-nu u₂-rap-pa-aš₂ | |
| 6 | LUGAL SUHUŠ {giš}GU.<ZA>-šu₂ i-ka-nu | |
| 7 | 1 30 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma {mul}GIR₂.TAB ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB | |
| 8 | NIN.DINGIR.RA-MEŠ uš-ta-ha-a | |
| 9 | {lu₂}NITA-MEŠ KI.MIN UR.MAH-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | in-nam-da-ru-ma A.RA₂ KUD-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
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