RMA 233 (P237849)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 233 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237849 |
| 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 Mars becomes visible in Elul (VI): the harvest of the land will prosper; the land will become happy. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44– | If the red planet [becomes visible]: plenty for the people. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | — Mars at its appearance carries radiance. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Nabû-iqbi. |
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 ina {iti}KIN {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu IGI-[ir] | |
| 2 | BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 3 | ŠA₃-bi KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 4 | 1 {mul}UDU.IDIM SA₅ [IGI-ir] | |
| 5 | nu-hu-uš UN-[MEŠ] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {d}ṣal-bat-an-nu ina IGI.DU₈.A-[šu₂] | |
| 2 | ša₂-ru-ru IL₂-ma | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}{d}AG—iq-bi | |
Sources & licences
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