RMA 136k (P238044)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 136k |
|---|---|
| ID | P238044 |
| 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 1'1'–o 3'3' | [one ho]rn [meets] the other: [there will be truth in the land, and] the [s]on [will speak the truth] with [his father]. — On the 14th day the moon [is seen together with the sun]. |
| Obverse [3:8] o 4'4'– | If the moon and sun are in oppos[ition]: the king of the land will widen his understanding; the foundation of the king's throne will [become stable]. — On the 14th day [they] see each other. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [If the moon] is seen on the 14th day: go[od for Akkad, ba]d for Elam and the Westland. |
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' | ⸢SI⸣ SI [i-dir ina KUR kit-tu₂ GAL₂-ma] | |
| 2' | ⸢DUMU⸣ KI [AD-šu₂ kit-tu₂ i-ta-mu] | |
| 3' | UD 14-KAM₂ {[d]}30 [KI {d}UTU IGI-ma] | |
| 4' | 1 {d}30 u {d}UTU šu-ta-[tu-u₂] | |
| 5' | LUGAL KUR uz-na DAGAL-[aš₂] | |
| 6' | LUGAL SUHUŠ {giš}GU.ZA-šu₂ i-[ka-an] | |
| 7' | UD 14-KAM₂ a-ha-meš IGI-[MEŠ-ma] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 30 ⸢UD⸣ 14-KAM₂ IGI-ma ⸢SIG₅⸣ [KUR—URI{ki]} | |
| 2 | ⸢HUL⸣ {kur}NIM.MA{ki} u ⸢MAR⸣.[TU{ki]} | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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