RMA 010 (P237864)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 010 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237864 |
| 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 [becomes visible] on the 1st day: reliable speech; [the land will become] happy. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | [If] the day reaches its normal length: a reign of long days. |
| Obverse [4:9] o 55– | [If the moon] at its appearance wears a crown: [cons]tantly the harvest of the land will prosper; [the land] will dwell as if in pastures near the city; the king will reach the highest rank. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Nabû-iqbi of Cutha. |
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 UD 01-KAM₂ [IGI-ir] | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ [KUR DUG₃.GA] | |
| 3 | 1 UD-mu ana ŠID-MEŠ-šu₂ GID₂.DA-ik | |
| 4 | BALA UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ AGA a-pir | |
| 6 | [SAG].UŠ-ma BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [KUR] ⸢a⸣-bur-riš TUŠ-ab | |
| 2 | LUGAL SAG.KAL-tu₂ DU-ak | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}{d}AG—iq-bi | |
| 4 | DUMU GU.DU₈.A{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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