RMA 073 (P237637)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 073 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237637 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | If the moon becomes visible in Ab (V) on the 30th day: dispersal of Akkad. |
| Obverse [2:11] o 33– | May the king of the world, my lord, not abandon me! Every day I approach the king because of my hunger, and now he assigned me to (making) bricks, saying: "Make bricks!" May the king my lord not abandon me so that I do not (have to) die! |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | From Ṭabiya. |
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 ina {iti}NE UD 30-KAM₂ IGI-ir | |
| 2 | BIR-ah KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 3 | LUGAL kiš-ša₂-ti be-li₂-a | |
| 4 | la u₂-maš-šar-an-ni a-na-ku | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD-mu-us-su a-na UGU | |
| 2 | bu-bu-ti-ia LUGAL a-mah-har | |
| 3 | u en-na a-na SIG₄ it-ta-as-ki-in-ni | |
| 4 | um-ma li-bit-ti li-bi-in | |
| 5 | LUGAL be-li₂-ia la u₂-maš-šar-an-ni-ma | |
| 6 | la a-ma-ti | |
| 7 | ša₂ {1}ṭa-bi-ia | |
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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