RMA 244a (P237913)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 244a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237913 |
| 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 kurkurru of the Old Man star shines: [a servant] will make a rebellion [against] the house of his lord. — [Venu]s stands with the foot of the Old Man star. |
| Obverse [3:9] o 44– | Mars reached Cancer; [the king sh]ould know and be circumspect until it goes out. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [From] Rašil 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 {⸢mul⸣}ŠU.GI kur-kur-ru-šu₂ i-nam-bu-uṭ | |
| 2 | [ARAD ana] E₂—EN-šu₂ E₂—EN-šu₂ HI.GAR DU₃-uš | |
| 3 | {[mul}dil]-⸢bat⸣ KI GIR₃ {mul}ŠU.GI GUB-ma | |
| 4 | {⸢mul⸣}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 5 | {[mul]}AL.LUL ik-ta-šad | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [LUGAL lu]-u₂ i-di | |
| 2 | [o] lu la-ti-ik | |
| 3 | a-di uṣ-ṣu-u₂ | |
| 4 | [ša₂] {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR ARAD ša₂ LUGAL | |
| 5 | mah-ru-u | |
Sources & licences
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