RMA 270 (P237949)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 270 |
|---|---|
| ID | P237949 |
| 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 |
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| Obverse [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [......] ... will change; [......] there will be [fl]oods from the sources. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [If the moon makes] an eclipse in the evening watch ... [......], the eclipse (is for) the king of Akkad; a great king will die. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [If] there is an eclipse, and the north wind blows: the gods will have mercy on the land. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | If the moon comes out darkly: a devastating flood will take place. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | If the moon comes out darkly and lingers on: destruction of all lands. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | If the moon comes out darkly and is like the command of the sky: the king will overthrow all lands in defeat, variant: the gods will overthrow all lands in defeat. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | If the moon is eclipsed in Sivan (III): later in the year, Adad will devastate the harvest of the land. |
| Obverse [9:10] o 1010–o 1010 | If in Sivan there is an eclipse in the evening watch: attack of fish and locusts. |
| Obverse [10:12] o 1111–o 1212 | If in Sivan on the 14th day there is an eclipse: an effective king who is famous will die, and his son who had not been named for kingship will seize the throne, and there will be hostilities. |
| Obverse [12:17] o 1313– | If in Sivan from the 1st to the 30th day there is an eclipse: the eclipse (is for) the king of Akkad; there will be a peak [fl]ood, and Adad will devastate the harvest of the land; ... [...] army will fall; if you perform (the observation) for the well-being of the king, the city and his people, it (means) well-being; there will be a [dec]rease of barley in the ..., var.: in that year. |
| Reverse [0:8] r 1r 1–r 88 | [If] there is an eclipse [in Sivan on the 14th] day, and the god, in his eclipse, [......] ends ... and touches the middle watch: [you observe his eclipse, and] you keep the north wind in mind. [Thereby] a prediction is given [for Ur] and the king of Ur: Ur will experience [fam]ine, deaths will increase; the son of the king of Ur will wrong him, but Šamaš will catch the son who wronged his father, and he will die in the mourning-place of his father; a son of the king who had not been named for kingship will seize the throne. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | An eclipse in the evening watch portends deaths. |
| Reverse [9:12] r 1010–r 1212 | The term (for the portent) of an eclipse in the evening watch is 3 months and 10 days. Sivan (means) the Westland, the 14th day (means) Elam, the evening watch (means) Akkad; [......] for the king, it (means) well-being. |
| Reverse [12:13] r 1313–r 1313 | [From Ašar]edu. |
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 | [x x x x x x x]-lum KUR₂-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [x x x A].KAL-ME ina IDIM GAL₂-ME | |
| 3 | 30 AN.MI EN.NUN—AN.USAN x x x ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x AN].MI LUGAL URI{ki} LUGAL GAL UŠ₂ | |
| 4 | 1 AN.MI GAR-ma {im}SI.SA₂ DU DINGIR-MEŠ ana KUR ARHUŠ TUK-MEŠ | |
| 5 | 1 30 ad-riš E₃-a A.⸢MA⸣.RU IŠ-ti GAR-an | |
| 6 | 1 30 ad-riš E₃-ma u id-lip NIG₂.HA.LAM.MA KUR DU₃.A.BI | |
| 7 | 1 30 ad-riš E₃-ma GIM ṭe₃-em AN-e GAR LUGAL KUR.KUR | |
| 8 | ina ŠI.ŠI u₂-šam-qat DINGIR-MEŠ KUR.KUR ina ŠI.ŠI u₂-šam-qa-tu | |
| 9 | 1 30 ina {iti}SIG₄ a-dir {d}IM EGIR MU BURU₁₄ KUR RA-iṣ | |
| 10 | 1 ina {iti}SIG₄ AN.MI EN.NUN—AN.USAN GAR ZI-ut KU₆-HI.A u BURU₅-HI.A | |
| 11 | 1 ina {iti}SIG₄ UD 14-KAM₂ AN.MI GAR LUGAL ga-mi-ru ša₂ MU TUK UŠ₂-ma | |
| 12 | DUMU-šu₂ ša₂ ana NAM.LUGAL la zak-ru AŠ.TE DIB-ma {mi₂}KUR₂-MEŠ GAL₂-MEŠ | |
| 13 | 1 ina {iti}SIG₄ TA UD 01-KAM₂ EN UD 30-KAM AN.MI GAR AN.MI LUGAL URI{ki} | |
| 14 | [A].KAL kiš-ša₂-ti GAL₂-ma BURU₁₄ KUR {d}IM RA-iṣ ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 15 | [x x] ERIM ŠUB-ut BE-ma ana DI-mu LUGAL URU u UN-MEŠ-šu₂ DU₃-ma DI | |
| 16 | [nu]-⸢šur⸣-re-e ŠE ina BUR₂-ti ina MU BI GAL₂-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 ina {iti}SIG₄ UD 14-KAM₂ AN.MI GAR-ma DINGIR ina |KA×MI|šu₂ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x] ⸢ZI⸣-ma EN EN.NUN—MURUB₄.BA TAG-ut | |
| 3 | |KA×MI|šu₂ IGI-ma] {im}SI.SA₂ ina ŠU.2-ka tu-kal | |
| 4 | [ina ŠA₃ ana ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki]}ma u LUGAL ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki} EŠ.BAR SUM ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki} | |
| 5 | [SU].KU₂ IGI UŠ₂-MEŠ i-man-du LUGAL ŠEŠ.UNUG{ki} DUMU-šu₂ | |
| 6 | i-hab-bil-šu₂-ma DUMU ha-bil AD-šu₂ {d}UTU KUR-su-ma | |
| 7 | ina KI.HUL AD-šu₂ UŠ₂ DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL ša₂ ana NAM.LUGAL la zak-ru | |
| 8 | AŠ.TE DIB-bat | |
| 9 | 1 AN.MI EN.NUN—AN.USAN a-na NAM.UŠ₂-MEŠ | |
| 10 | 1 UD.DUG₄.GA EN.NUN—AN.USAN a-na ITI 03-KAM₂ UD 10-KAM | |
| 11 | {iti}SIG₄ KUR—MAR.TU UD 14-KAM₂ {kur}NIM EN.NUN—AN.USAN KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 12 | [x x x x x]-is ana LUGAL DI-mu | |
| 13 | [ša₂ {1}a-ša₂]-⸢ri⸣-du | |
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