RMA 147 (P237912)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 147 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237912 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [If on the 14th day the moon and sun] are seen together: [reliable speech; the land] will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad [favorably]; the king will become happy; [joy] among the troops; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undis[turbed]. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | [If the moon and sun] are in opposition: [the king of the land] will widen his understanding. |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88– | [If the moon's] horns at its [appearance] are very dark: [disbanding] of the fortified outposts, [retiring] of the guards; there will be [reconciliation] and peace in the land. |
| Reverse [3:8] r 44–r 88 | (The moon) came into opposition with the sun [on] the appropriate day, its position was equal (to the sun's) portending a reign of long days, (and) [well-being] of the king of the world and his people. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [From Ra]šil the older, servant of the king. |
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 14-KAM₂ 30 u 20 it]-⸢ti⸣ a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR] DUG₃-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 3 | [a-na {mi₂}SIG₅] i-has-sa-su ŠA₃ LUGAL DUG₃-ab | |
| 4 | [hu-ud ŠA₃-bi] ERIM-ni bu-lim KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 5 | [par-ga]-niš ina EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ | |
| 6 | 1 30 u 20 šu-ta-tu-u₂ | |
| 7 | [LUGAL KUR] uz-nu DAGAL-aš₂ | |
| 8 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL]-šu₂ SI-MEŠ-šu₂ tur-ru-kam | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [DU₈] bi-ra-a-[ti] | |
| 2 | [a-rad] ma-ṣar-ra-a-[ti] | |
| 3 | [taš-mu-u₂] u SILIM-mu ina KUR ⸢GAL₂-ši⸣ | |
| 4 | [ana] ⸢BALA⸣ UD-MEŠ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [ša-lam] LUGAL ŠU₂ u UN-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 6 | [ina] UD-mu a-dan-ni-šu₂ | |
| 7 | [it]-ti {d}UTU uš-ta-ta-a | |
| 8 | [ša]-ni-in man-za-as-su | |
| 9 | [ša₂ {1}TUK]-ši—DINGIR ARAD ša₂ LUGAL IGI-u | |
Sources & licences
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