RMA 135a (P237695)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 135a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237695 |
| 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 on the 14th day the moon and] sun are seen [toge]ther: [reliable speech]; the [land] will become happy; [the gods] will remember Akkad fav[orabl]y; [joy] among the troops; the king will become happy; [the catt]le of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [If the moon] and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77– | [If the moon and sun] are in balance: the land will become stable; [reli]able speech will be placed in the mouth of people. |
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 30 u] 20 KI [a-ha]-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [KA GI.NA] ŠA₃ [KUR] DUG₃-ab | |
| 3 | [DINGIR-ME KUR]—URI{ki} a-na ⸢SIG₅-tim⸣ i-ha-sa-su | |
| 4 | [hu-ud ŠA₃]-bi ERIM-ni ŠA₃ LUGAL DUG₃-ab | |
| 5 | [MAŠ₂].⸢ANŠE⸣ KUR—URI{ki} ina EDIN par-ga-niš NA₂-iṣ | |
| 6 | 1 30 u 20 šu-ta-tu-u₂ LUGAL KUR uz-na DAGAL-aš₂ | |
| 7 | 1 30 u 20 šit-qu-lu KUR GI.NA at-mu-u₂ | |
| 8 | [GI].⸢NA⸣ ina KA UN-MEŠ GAR-an | |
Sources & licences
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