RMA 108 (P237636)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 108 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237636 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Scorpius stands in it: entu-priestesses will be made pregnant; men, variant: lions will rage and cut off traffic. |
| Bottom [0:4] b.e. 6b.e. 6– | The sign does not affect (us). Because of the king's watch I wrote to the king my lord. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | 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 30 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma {mul}GIR₂.TAB | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB NIN.DINGIR.RA-ME | |
| 3 | uš-tah-ha-a NITA-ME | |
| 4 | UR.MAH-ME UŠ₂-ME-ma | |
| 5 | A.RA₂ KUD-ME | |
| b.e. | ||
| 6 | it-tum ul ta-lap-pat | |
| r | ||
| 1 | aš₂-šu₂ ma-aṣ-ṣar-tum ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 2 | ana LUGAL EN-ia₂ aš₂-pu-ra | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}za-kir | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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