RMA 274a (P237938)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 274a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237938 |
| 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 | The eclipse will pass by, (the moon) will not make it. Should the king say: "What sign did you see?" — |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [... the god]s did not see each other |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | [...] for the night |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [The eclipse] will pass by (and) [the moon] will be seen [together with] the sun. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Munnabitu. |
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 | ⸢AN.MI⸣ it-ti-iq la GAR-an | |
| 2 | ki-i LUGAL i-qab-bu-u₂ um-ma | |
| 3 | ⸢mi⸣-nu-u₂ i-da-tu ta-mur | |
| 4 | [x x x DINGIR]-MEŠ a-ha-meš la IGI-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ a-na mu-ši x | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x]-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x AN.MI] ⸢it⸣-ti-iq | |
| 2 | {[d}30 KI] {d}UTU ⸢in-nam-mar⸣ | |
| 3 | ša₂ {1}mun-na-bi-tu | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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