RMA 216 (P237915)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 216 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237915 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | Satu[rn] became visible [in]side of Leo. |
| Obverse [2:7] o 33– | If Leo is dark: for three years, [li]ons and wol[ves] will kill people and cut off traffic with the [Wes]tland. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | If a planet rises in Ab (V): the cemetery of warriors will expand. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From Ašaredu the older. |
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}UDU.IDIM.SAG.[UŠ ina] ŠA₃-bi [o] | |
| 2 | ša₂ {mul}UR.GU.LA it-tan-mar | |
| 3 | 1 {mul}UR.GU.LA a-dir | |
| 4 | 03 MU-MEŠ [UR].MAH-MEŠ | |
| 5 | u UR.BAR.⸢RA-MEŠ⸣ LU₂.U₁₈.LU GAZ | |
| 6 | A.RA₂ KUR—[MAR].⸢TU⸣ KUD-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}UDU.IDIM ina {iti}NE | |
| 2 | KUR-ha | |
| 3 | KI.NA₂ qu-ra-du DAGAL | |
| 4 | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-du IGI-u₂ | |
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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