RMA 249 (P237877)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 249 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237877 |
| 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 day of disapp]earance of the moon is at an inappropriate time: the ruin of the Gutians will take place. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | That means the moon disappears on the 27th day. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If the day of disappearance of the moon in the third month [...]. there will be an eclipse, and the gods [......]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | 3 days [it stayed] inside the sky. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | If the moon in Elul (VI) [becomes visible] on the 30th day: dispersal of the land [Subartu]. |
| Obverse [8:17] o 99– | On this 30th day [the moon became visible]. The lord of kings will say: "Is [the sign] not affected?" The moon disappeared on the 27th; the 28th and the 29th it stayed inside the sky, and was seen on the 30th; when (else) should it have been seen? It should stay inside the sky less than 4 days, it never stayed 4 days. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | May the king of all lands be everlasting! |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | 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 UD].⸢NA₂⸣.AM₃ UD].⸢NA₂⸣.AM₃ ina NU ŠID-MEŠ-šu₂ GAL₂-ši | |
| 2 | [šal]-pu₂-tim gu-ti-i GAR-an | |
| 3 | [ša] UD 27-KAM₂ 30 TUM₃-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 4 | 1 UD.NA₂.AM₃ UD.NA₂.AM₃ ina ITI 03-šu₂ [x x] | |
| 5 | AN.MI GAR-ma DINGIR-MEŠ ki [x x] | |
| 6 | 03 UD-mu ina AN-e [bu-u₂-ut] | |
| 7 | 1 30 ina {iti}KIN UD 30-[KAM₂ IGI] | |
| 8 | BIR-ah {kur}[SU.BIR₄{ki]} | |
| 9 | UD 30-KAM₂ a-ga-a {[d}30 it-tan-mar] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | EN LUGAL-MEŠ i-qab-bi um-[ma GISKIM] | |
| 2 | la la-pi-it UD 27-KAM₂ 30 it-ta-[bal] | |
| 3 | UD 28-KAM₂ UD 29-KAM₂ ina AN-e bu-u₂-ut [o] | |
| 4 | u₃ UD 30-KAM₂ it-tan-mar | |
| 5 | im—ma-tim-ma im—ma-tim-ma li-in-na-mir | |
| 6 | ba-ab-ti 04 UD-mi-i ina AN-e li-bit | |
| 7 | im—ma-tim-ma im—ma-tim-ma 04 UD-mu ul i-bit | |
| 8 | LUGAL KUR.KUR lu da-ri | |
| 9 | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-du | |
Sources & licences
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