RMA 253c (P237719)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 253c |
|---|---|
| ID | P237719 |
| 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 night is red: [......] four winds [......]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If the night is ... [......] wind will rise [......]. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55– | If it ra[ins] on the day of disappearance of the moon: the harvest of the land will be brought in, [and] bus[iness] will be ste[ady]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [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 MI sa-am ⸢MU⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | IM.LIMMU₂.BA [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | 1 MI hi-i-⸢x⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 4 | TU₁₅ ZI-[ma x x x] | |
| 5 | 1 ina UD.NA₂.A UD.NA₂.A A.AN ⸢ŠUR⸣-[nun] | |
| 6 | BURU₁₄ KUR IL₂-[ma] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢KI⸣.[LAM] GI.[NA] | |
| 2 | [ša₂] {1}za-kir | |
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
- 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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