RMA 277h (P238023)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 277h |
|---|---|
| ID | P238023 |
| 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 | [If ......] ... [......] stands [in] Scorpius: |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [......] in the land [......] ... |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | [......] not written |
| Obverse [6:7] o 77–o 77 | [...] there will be floods. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | [......] the 13th day of this month [...] will go out [of Scorpius]. |
| Obverse [9:15] o 1010– | [......] the moon ... [......] ... [......] Scorpius ... [......] stood. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 88–r 88 | [......] in Scorpius [...]. |
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⸣ mu ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x]-ši | |
| 3 | [x x x x x] {mul}GIR₂.TAB GUB | |
| 4 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣-tum ina KUR | |
| 5 | [x x x x x x] ŠUB-di | |
| 6 | [x x x x x] pa NU ša-ṭir | |
| 7 | [x x x A].KAL-MEŠ GAL₂-MEŠ | |
| 8 | [x x x x] UD 13-KAM₂ ša₂ ITI a-ga-a | |
| 9 | [x x x x x] uṣ-ṣu | |
| 10 | [x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ 30 GUB | |
| 11 | [x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ a ⸢x⸣+[x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x x x x x x x] TE | |
| 2 | [x x x x x {mul]}GIR₂.TAB [x x] UŠ₂ | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ iz-ziz | |
| 8 | [x x x x ana] ŠA₃ {mul}GIR₂.[TAB 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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