RMA 133 (P237861)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 133 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237861 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1– | If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably; joy among the troops; the king will become happy; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely, and one horn meets the other: there will be truth in the land, the son will speak the truth with his father; the king will make his thro[ne last l]ong. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | — On the 14th day their light [was seen together]. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | May the king of all [lands be everlasting]! |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | From A[šaredu]. |
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 UD 14-KAM₂ 30 u 20 | |
| 2 | KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ KA GI.NA | |
| 3 | ŠA₃-bi KUR DUG₃-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 4 | ana SIG₅-tim i-ha-as-sa-su | |
| 5 | hu-ud ŠA₃-bi ERIM-ni ŠA₃-bi LUGAL DUG₃-ab | |
| 6 | bu-lim KUR—URI{[ki]} par₂-ga-niš | |
| 7 | i-na EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 30 20 KUR-ma KI-šu₂ it-te-ni-[tu₂] | |
| 2 | SI SI i-dir ina KUR kit-tu₂ GAL₂-[ši] | |
| 3 | DUMU KI <AD>-šu₂ kit-ti i-ta-mi | |
| 4 | LUGAL {giš}GU.[ZA-šu₂ u₂-lab]-bar | |
| 5 | UD 14-KAM₂ UD.DA-su-⸢nu⸣ [KI a-ha-meš IGI]-ma | |
| 6 | LUGAL KUR.⸢KUR⸣ [lu da-ri] | |
| 7 | ša₂ {1}a-[ša₂-ri-du] | |
Sources & licences
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