RMA 064a (P238045)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 064a |
|---|---|
| ID | P238045 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | [If the moon] becomes visible in Iyyar (II) on the 30th day: the Ahlamû will devour [the wealth of the] Westland. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [...] ... and destruction. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [......] will be [in] the Westland [...] ...... |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | [......] will be long. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 2'2'–r 3'3' | [...... the moon] will be seen with the sun [...] it will let [the eclipse] pass by. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [From Aša]redu. |
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] {iti}GUD UD 30-KAM₂ IGI-ir | |
| 2 | [ṭuh-da KUR]—MAR.TU ah-la-mu-u₂ KU₂ | |
| 3 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ru u₃ u NIG₂.HA.LAM.MA | |
| 4 | [x x x x x] KUR—MAR.TU GAL₂ | |
| 5 | [x x x x] ⸢x GIM x x KI⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢GID₂⸣.DA | |
| 2' | [x x x x 30 KI 20 IGI-mar | |
| 3' | [x x x x AN.MI] u₂-še-et-te-eq | |
| 4' | [ša₂ {1}a-ša₂]-ri-du | |
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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