RMA 082 (P237878)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 082 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237878 |
| 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 late at an inappropriate time and is not seen: attack of a ruling city. — It is seen on the 16th day. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | If the moon is not seen: the gods will make an unfavorable decision about the land. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | I.e., one god is not seen with the other on the 14th or 15th day. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | If the moon in Elul (VI) is seen with the sun neither on the 14th nor on the 15th day: lions will rage and block the traffic. |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | If the light of the moon and sun is very dark: the king will be angry with his land and his people. |
| Obverse [7:11] o 88– | Within one month the moon and sun will make an eclipse; i.e. each month on the 14th day one god will not be seen with the other. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | If on the 16th day the moon and sun are seen together: one king will send messages of hostility to another; the king will be shut up in his palace for the length [of a month]; the step of the enemy will be set towards his land; the enemy will march around in [his] land victoriously. If ditto: the king of Subartu will become strong and have no rival. |
| Reverse [5:9] r 66–r 99 | The [ki]ng must not become negligent about these observations of the mo[on]; let the king perform either a namburbi or [so]me ritual which is pertinent to it. |
| Reverse [9:10] r 1010–r 1010 | From Munnabitu. |
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 {d}30 ina la si-ma-ni uh-hi-ram-ma NU IGI | |
| 2 | te-be₂-e URU kiš-ša₂-tu₂ UD 16-KAM₂ IGI-ma | |
| 3 | 1 {d}30 NU IGI DINGIR-MEŠ GALGA KUR ana HUL-tim GALGA-MEŠ | |
| 4 | ša₂ UD 14-KAM₂ UD 15-KAM₂ DINGIR KI DINGIR NU IGI-ru | |
| 5 | 1 {d}30 ina {iti}KIN lu-u₂ UD 14-KAM₂ lu-u₂ UD 15-KAM | |
| 6 | KI {d}UTU NU IGI UR.A-MEŠ IDIM-MEŠ A.RA₂ KUD-MEŠ | |
| 7 | 1 {d}30 u {d}UTU UD.DA-su-nu du-ʾu-u₂-mat | |
| 8 | LUGAL KI KUR-šu₂ u UN-MEŠ-šu₂ ze-ni i-na 01-en ITI | |
| 9 | {d}30 u {d}UTU AN.MI GAR-MEŠ-ma ša₂ UD 14-KAM | |
| 10 | ITI-us-su DINGIR KI DINGIR NU IGI-ru | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 UD 16-KAM₂ {d}30 u {d}UTU KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 2 | LUGAL ana LUGAL {mi₂}KUR₂ KIN LUGAL ina E₂.GAL-šu₂ ana ŠID [ITI] | |
| 3 | u₂-ta-sar GIR₃ KUR₂ ana KUR-šu₂ GAR-an KUR₂ ina KUR-[šu₂] | |
| 4 | šal-ṭa-niš DU-MEŠ | |
| 5 | 1 KI.MIN LUGAL SU.BIR₄{ki} i-dan-nin-ma GABA.RI NU TUK-ši | |
| 6 | a-na UGU ta-ma-ra-a-ti a-gan-na-a-ti | |
| 7 | ša₂ {d}30 LUGAL⸣ la i-ša₂-ṭu lu-u₂ NAM.BUR₂.BI | |
| 8 | lu-u₂ [mim]-ma dul-lu ša₂ a-na UGU-hi qer-bu | |
| 9 | LUGAL li-pu-uš | |
| 10 | ša₂ {1}mun-na-bi-tu | |
Sources & licences
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