RMA 116a (P238043)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 116a |
|---|---|
| ID | P238043 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | ...... [...] son of Humbê (and) Marda..., the eunuch [...] of the king ... [...] instead [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | devastation [......] |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | halo, the star [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | and Anuni[tu ...] |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | another halo in [...] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | From Ašaredu. |
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 ha ad din GAL ši [x x] | |
| 2 | DUMU {1}hu-⸢um-be₂-e⸣ [o] | |
| 3 | {1}⸢mar-da-x⸣ {lu₂}⸢SAG⸣ [o] | |
| 4 | ša₂ LUGAL [x] pa-ni-šu₂ [x] | |
| 5 | ⸢ku-um⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ri-⸢ih-ṣu⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 2' | TUR₃ {mul}[x x x x] | |
| 3' | u {mul}a-nu-ni-[tum x x x] | |
| 4' | ša₂-nu-u₂ TUR₃ ina [x x x] | |
| 5' | DU-šu₂ ta mu [x x x] | |
| 6' | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-du [o] | |
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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