RMA 236 (P237895)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 236 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237895 |
| 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 [0:8] o 1o 1– | [Ma]rs has entered Cancer, but it will not be regarded as an omen; it will not stand in it, it will not become stationary and not tarry; quickly it will move out. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | From Bel-naṣir. |
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 | {[mul}ṣal]-bat-⸢a-nu⸣ ša₂ ana ŠA₃ {mul}AL.LUL | |
| 2 | ⸢i⸣-ru-bu a-na it-tum | |
| 3 | ul iṣ-ṣab-bat | |
| 4 | ina ŠA₃-bi ul iz-za-zi | |
| 5 | ul in-ne₂-em-mi-du | |
| 6 | u₃ ul i-ka-ši | |
| 7 | ar₂-hiš uṣ-ṣi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša₂ {1}{d}EN—ŠEŠ-ir | |
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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