RMA 246 (P237897)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 246 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237897 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [If the] Old Man star comes close to the top of the moon and stands there: [the king] will stand in triumph, [he] will become old and will extend his land. |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44– | [If the O]ld Man star comes close to the top of the moon and stands there, (and) enters the moon: the king will be pleasing to his land; there will be [tru]th and justice [in] his land. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [From] Rašil, son of Nurzanu. |
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 {mul]}ŠU.GI ana UGU 30 SI₄-ma GUB | |
| 2 | [LUGAL] ina li-ti GUB-zu | |
| 3 | [i]-šam-ma KUR-su DAGAL-aš₂ | |
| 4 | 1 {mul]}⸢ŠU⸣.GI ana UGU 30 SI₄-ma GUB | |
| 5 | [ana ŠA₃] 30 TU-ub⸣ LUGAL UGU KUR-šu₂ DUG₃-ab | |
| 6 | [kit]-ti u i-šar-ti | |
| 7 | [ina] KUR-šu₂ GAL₂-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša₂] {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR DUMU {1}nu-ur₂-za-nu | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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