RMA 081h (P238027)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 081h |
|---|---|
| ID | P238027 |
| 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 the moon in [......] with [......] flood [...]. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | If the moon [becomes visible at an inappropriate time]: business will di[minish. This is] bad [for ...]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | the enemy [will plunder in the land]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | If the moon at [......] ... [......]. |
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 30 ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 2 | KI ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 3 | A.⸢KAL⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 4 | 1 30 ina la [mi-na-ti-šu₂ IGI] | |
| 5 | KI.LAM ⸢TUR⸣-[ir] | |
| 6 | HUL [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | {lu₂}KUR₂ ina [KUR TI-qi] | |
| 2' | 1 30 ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] | |
| 3' | ti ⸢x⸣+[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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