RMA 205a (P238047)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 205a |
|---|---|
| ID | P238047 |
| 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 Venus] se[ts] in Nisan (I): the harvest of the land will happen, variant: will pr[osper]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If the Frond star reaches the Pleiades: [Adad will devastate. —] Venus [stands] in the Pleiades. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | If Venus [is risen] in winter in the [East], at harvest time [in the We]st: |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1'1'–r 5'5' | [...] ... [......] ... of the king my lord [......] before me, [......] when I swore an oath [......] is good so I did not write to the king my lord. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | [From ...]a, son of Bel-ušallim. |
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 {⸢mul⸣}[dil-bat ina] {iti}BARAG ir-[bi] | |
| 2 | BURU₁₄ KUR GAL₂-ši ⸢SI⸣.[SA₂] | |
| 3 | 1 {mul}A.EDIN MUL.MUL KUR-ud {d}[IM RA] | |
| 4 | {mul}dil-bat ina ŠA₃ MUL.MUL [GUB-ma] | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}dil-bat ina EN.TE.NA ina {[d}UTU.E₃] | |
| 6 | ina BURU₁₄ [ina {d}UTU].ŠU₂.A [nap-hat] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x] ud ad [x x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] e-du ša LUGAL EN-ia [x x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x ina pa]-na-tu-u₂-a ši-[x x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x x] ana ŠA₃ a-de-e ki-i e-⸢ru⸣-bu | |
| 5' | [x x x] ⸢ṭa⸣-a-bi-ma a-na LUGAL EN-ia ul aš₂-pu-ra | |
| 6' | [ša {1}x x x]-a DUMU {1}{d}EN—u₂-šal-lim | |
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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