RMA 046 (P237794)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 046 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237794 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | If the moon's horns at its appearance are very pointed: the king will strike down the land of his enemy. |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44– | If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: the speech of the land will become reliable; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably; there will be joy among the people. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From Aplaya. |
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 IGI.LAL-šu₂ | |
| 2 | SI-MEŠ-šu₂ ud-du-da | |
| 3 | LUGAL KUR KUR₂-šu₂ u₂-na-kap | |
| 4 | 1 UD 14-KAM₂ 30 u {d}UTU | |
| 5 | KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 6 | KA KUR GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| r | ||
| 1 | DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 2 | a-na SIG₅-tim i-has-sa-su | |
| 3 | hu-ud ŠA₃-bi UN-MEŠ GAR-an | |
| 4 | ša₂ {1}DUMU.UŠ-a | |
Sources & licences
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