RMA 236b (P237920)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 236b |
|---|---|
| ID | P237920 |
| 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– | If Mars stands in [...] to the left of Venus: [there will be] devastation in Akkad; the pen of horses [...]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | If the Panther becomes visible ... [...]: lamentation of ...[...]. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | — Planets stand in the constellation [...]. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 55–r 66 | This evil is for [......] will [...] nobody. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | From Rašil [...]. |
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}ṣal-bat-a-nu ina ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2 | ina KAB {mul}dil-bat u₂-⸢šu⸣-[uz] | |
| 3 | ar₂-bu-tu ina KUR—URI{ki} [x x] | |
| 4 | TUR₃ ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}UD.KA.DU₈.A IGI ⸢x⸣ [x x] | |
| 2 | ta-az-zi-im-ti DINGIR NI [x x x] | |
| 3 | {mul}UDU.IDIM-MEŠ ina ŠA₃-bi {mul}[x x] | |
| 4 | GUB-MEŠ-[ma] | |
| 5 | HUL šu-u₂ a-na [x x x x] | |
| 6 | mam-ma la u₂-ta-[x x x] | |
| 7 | ša₂ {1}TUK-ši—DINGIR [x x x x x] | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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