RMA 252a (P237918)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 252a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237918 |
| 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 | If a fog ro[lls] in in Adar (XII): the land will g[o] to ruin. |
| Obverse [2:5] o 33–o 55 | If the sun changes its path and [goes along] another one: the king will abandon his land [and c]amp outside. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | Additional days in [...] are many, the sun [......] does not stand [......]. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | Let the lord of kings dwell [...] two days in a city which [the king lik]es, and [...] he should [...] in the steppe. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | May the lord of kings be everla[sting]! |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | From Ašaredu [the younger]. |
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 ina {iti}ŠE IM.DUGUD iq-[tur] | |
| 2 | KUR ar₂-bu-tu₂ DU-[ak] | |
| 3 | 1 20 KASKAL-šu₂ KUR₂-ma MIN₃-tam-ma [DU-ak] | |
| 4 | LUGAL KUR-su ŠUB-di-[ma] | |
| 5 | ana ka-ma-a-ti i-rab-[bi-iṣ] | |
| 6 | UD-MEŠ at-ru-ti ina [x x x] | |
| 7 | ma-aʾ-du {d}UTU ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 8 | ul u₂-šu-uz [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | EN LUGAL-MEŠ 02 UD-⸢mu⸣ [x x x] | |
| 2 | i-na URU ša₂ pa-ni [LUGAL mah-ru] | |
| 3 | lu-ši-ib u₃ ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 4 | i-na EDIN lu-u [x x x] | |
| 5 | EN LUGAL-MEŠ lu da-[ri] | |
| 6 | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-du [qa-at-nu] | |
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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