RMA 277i (P237955)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 277i |
|---|---|
| ID | P237955 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | (1) (Beginning destroyed or untranslatable) |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | [If ...] Mars [......]: cattle [and ......] will not prosper; the Westland [...]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [If two stars] stand in the halo of the moon: [a reign of] long [days]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [From ...]...[...]. |
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 [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x]-im | |
| 4 | [x x x x x]-tum | |
| 5 | 1 x x x x] {⸢mul⸣}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] bu-lim | |
| 7 | [x x x x x x x x]-šu₂ | |
| 8 | NU ⸢SI⸣.SA₂-ME KUR—MAR{ki} [x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 02 MUL]-MEŠ ina TUR₃ 30 GUB-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [BALA UD]-MEŠ GID₂.[DA-MEŠ] | |
| 3 | [ša {1}x]—PAB-[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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