RMA 085 (P237867)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 085 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237867 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | If the moon disappears: evil will be established for the land. |
| Obverse [1:4] o 22–o 44 | If the moon is carried off at an inappropriate time: there will be an eclipse. — The moon disappeared on the 24th day. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | If the sun on the day of the moon's disappearance is surrounded by a halo: there will be an eclipse of Elam. |
| Obverse [6:15] o 77– | In Kislev (IX) there will be a watch for an eclipse. The halo which surrounded the sun, and the moon which disappeared, appeared for the sake of the eclipse watch of Kislev. The king should know it; let the king my lord be happy. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | From Rašil the older, servant of the king. |
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 it-bal HUL-tim KUR GAR-an | |
| 2 | 1 30 ina la mi-na-ti-šu₂ bi-ib-lum u₂-bil | |
| 3 | AN.MI GAR-an | |
| 4 | UD 24-KAM₂ 30 i-tab-bal-ma | |
| 5 | 1 {d}UTU ina UD.NA₂.AM₃ UD.NA₂.AM₃ TUR₃ NIGIN₂ | |
| 6 | AN.MI NIM.MA{ki} GAR-an | |
| 7 | ina {iti}GAN ma-ṣar-ti ša₂ AN.MI | |
| r | ||
| 1 | TUR₃ ša₂ {d}UTU il-mu-u₂ | |
| 2 | u 30 ša₂ it-ba-lu | |
| 3 | a-na ma-ṣar-ti ša₂ AN.MI | |
| 4 | ša₂ {iti}GAN in-nam-mar | |
| 5 | LUGAL lu i-di | |
| 6 | ŠA₃-bi LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 7 | lu ṭa-a-bi | |
| 8 | ša₂ {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR ARAD ša₂ LUGAL IGI-u | |
Sources & licences
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