RMA 136d (P238032)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 136d |
|---|---|
| ID | P238032 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [If on the 14th day the moon and] sun are seen together: [reliable speech]; the land will become happy; [the gods will remember] Akkad favorably; joy among the troops; [the king will become happy]; the cattle of Akkad will lie [in the steppe undisturbed]. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [If the moon reaches the sun] and follows it closely, and [one horn] meets [the other]: there will be truth in the land, and [the son] will speak the truth [with] his father. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | — [Moon] and sun saw each other. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | May the [king of al]l lands be everlasting! |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [From Aša]redu the younger. |
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 UD 14-KAM₂ 30 u] 20 KI a-ha-meš IGI-[MEŠ] | |
| 2 | [KA GI.NA ŠA₃] KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 3 | [DINGIR-MEŠ KUR]—⸢URI{ki} ana SIG₅-tim⸣ | |
| 4 | [i-has-sa-su] hu-ud ŠA₃ ERIM-ni | |
| 5 | [ŠA₃ LUGAL DUG₃] bu-⸢lim⸣ KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 6 | [par-ga-niš ina EDIN] i-rab-bi-iṣ | |
| 7 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ x | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 30 20 KUR]-ma it-ti-šu₂ it-ten-tu | |
| 2 | [SI SI] i-dir ina KUR kit-ti GAL₂-ma | |
| 3 | [DUMU KI] AD-šu₂ kit-ti i-ta-mu | |
| 4 | 30 u 20 a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ-ma | |
| 5 | [LUGAL KUR].KUR lu da-ri | |
| 6 | [ša₂ {1}a-ša₂]-ri-du qa-at-nu | |
Sources & licences
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