RMA 182 (P237785)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 182 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237785 |
| 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 cloudbanks lie in the path of the sun: the gods will make a favorable decision about the land. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If four cloudbanks lie there: destruction of cattle and wild animals. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55– | If a cloudbank has come out in the path of the sun: rain and flood will come. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | If (at) the sun's rising cloudbanks lie in its path: the emblems of the land will fall. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Rašil the older, servant of the king. |
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 ni-du ina KASKAL 20 ŠUB-MEŠ DINGIR-MEŠ GALGA KUR | |
| 2 | ana {mi₂}SIG₅ GALGA-MEŠ | |
| 3 | 1 04 ni-du ŠUB-ME | |
| 4 | NIG₂.HA.LAM.MA GUD-MEŠ u u₂-ma-mu | |
| 5 | 1 ina KUR 20 ni-du a-ṣi | |
| 6 | A.AN u A.KAL DU-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 20 KUR ina KASKAL-šu₂ ni-du ŠUB-MEŠ | |
| 2 | ŠU.NIR KUR ŠUB-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR | |
| 4 | ARAD ša₂ LUGAL mah-ru-u | |
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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