RMA 121 (P237888)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 121 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237888 |
| 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 [0:4] 11–44 | On the 13th day the moon and s[un] were se[en] together: unreliable speech; [there will be] unjust wa[ys in the land]. |
| Obverse [4:7] 55– | If the moon is [...] in its course: business will [diminish]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | — On the 12th or 13th day [the moon] is seen with the sun. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Nabû-ahhe-iddin. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UD 13-KAM₂ {d}30 u {d}⸢UTU⸣ | |
| 2 | KI a-ha-meš IGI-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 3 | KA NU GI.NA a-⸢lak⸣-[tu] | |
| 4 | la mi-šar-ti [ina KUR GAL₂] | |
| 5 | 1 {d}30 ina a-la-ki-[šu x x] | |
| 6 | KI.LAM i-⸢ma⸣-[aṭ-ṭi] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 12-KAM₂ lu UD 13-KAM₂ {[d}30 | |
| 2 | KI {d}UTU IGI-ma | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}{d}AG—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—SUM.NA | |
Sources & licences
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