RMA 207a (P237953)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 207a |
|---|---|
| ID | P237953 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1' | If Venus [becomes visible] in Sivan (III): [fall of the enemy]. |
| Obverse [1:8] o 2'2'– | If Venus [is risen] in winter [in the east], at harvest time in [the west]: enemy kings [will be reconciled]; the harvest of the land will prosper; [the land will eat] good bread; reconciliation and peace will take place everywhere. |
| Reverse [1:4] r 22–r 44 | [If Venus becomes visible] in the path of the Enl[il stars: the king of Akkad will get no] rival; [...] ... [......]. |
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 {d}⸢dil-bat ina {iti⸣}SIG₄ [IGI ŠUB-tim {lu₂}KUR₂] | |
| 2' | 1 {d}dil-bat ina EN.TE.[NA ina {d}UTU.E₃.A] | |
| 3' | ina BURU₁₄ ina {d}[UTU.ŠU₂.A nap-hat] | |
| 4' | LUGAL-MEŠ KUR₂-MEŠ [SILIM-MEŠ] | |
| 5' | BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ [KUR] | |
| 6' | NINDA-HI.A DUG₃.GA [KU₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | taš-mu-u₂ u SILIM-mu ka-liš GAR-an | |
| 2 | 1 {d}dil]-⸢bat⸣ ina KASKAL šu-[ut {d]}⸢EN⸣.LIL₂ IGI-ir | |
| 3 | [LUGAL URI]{ki} ⸢GABA⸣.[RI NU TUK]-⸢ši⸣ | |
| 4 | [x x DU]-ak [x 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)
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