RMA 201a (P237943)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 201a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237943 |
| 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–o 55 | [If a] meteor flashes from the east to the west, and interrupts its train and puts it (again): the main army of the enemy will fall. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [From] Nabû-iqbi. |
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]—GAL TA {d}UTU.⸢E₃⸣.[A] | |
| 2 | a-na {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A SUR-ma | |
| 3 | mi-ših-šu₂ u₂-mar-ri-ma | |
| 4 | GAR-un ERIM KUR₂ ina DUGUD-šu₂ | |
| 5 | ŠUB-ut | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša₂ {1}{d]}AG—iq-bi | |
Sources & licences
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