RMA 117 (P237795)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 117 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237795 |
| 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 is surrounded by a sheepfold: that land will expand; dispersed people will gather. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If it is surrounded, and Cancer stands in it: the king of Akkad will extend the life. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | If Regulus stands in it: women will give birth to male children. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | If the moon is surrounded by a sheepfold and lingers on: giving of the reign to the king. |
| Obverse [8:12] o 99– | I.e., it is surrounded by a large halo. It stood there for much of the night and did not dissolve. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Šapiku of Borsippa. |
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 AMAŠ NIGIN KUR BI DAGAL-eš | |
| 2 | UN-MEŠ BIR-MEŠ NIGIN-MEŠ | |
| 3 | 1 NIGIN-ma {mul}AL.LUL ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB | |
| 4 | LUGAL URI{ki} TI.LA ur-rak | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}LUGAL ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB | |
| 6 | MI₂-MEŠ NITA-MEŠ U₃.TU-MEŠ | |
| 7 | 1 30 AMAŠ NIGIN-ma id-lip | |
| 8 | na-da-nu pa-le-e ana LUGAL | |
| 9 | ša₂ TUR₃ ra-bu-u₂ NIGIN-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | mu-ši ma-a-du iz-zi-zu-ma | |
| 2 | la ip-ṭu-ru | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}ša₂-pi-ku DUMU BAR₂.SIPA{ki} | |
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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