RMA 022b (P237868)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 022b |
|---|---|
| ID | P237868 |
| 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 [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [......] were seen [...]. |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66– | When [......] are seen, [the scribal art] is not heard about in the market places. [Let me come] up and speak [unambiguously] to the lord of kings. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [May the king of all lands be] everlasting! |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From Ašaredu. |
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 KA GI.NA | |
| 2 | ŠA₃-bi KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 3 | 1 UD ana ŠID-MEŠ-šu₂] GID₂.DA | |
| 4 | [BALA UD-MEŠ] GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [x x x x] ⸢in⸣-nam-ru | |
| 6 | [x x x x ki]-i in-nam-ma-ru | |
| 7 | [ṭup-šar-ru-ti] ⸢ina KI.LAM⸣ ul iš-šem-mi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x]-ia a-na EN LUGAL-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [lup-ru-us-ma lu]-uq-bi | |
| 3 | [LUGAL KUR.KUR lu] da-ri | |
| 4 | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-du | |
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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