RMA 047a (P238048)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 047a |
|---|---|
| ID | P238048 |
| 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 1o 1–o 33 | [......] will devour. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | [If the moon at its appearance] wears a crown: the king will reach the highest rank. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66– | [If the moon] wears [a crown of a dark day: the moon god] will smite [the enemy. A dark day means] a cloudy [day]. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | [If at the moon's appearance] its right horn becomes long, and its left [horn] short: [the king] will conquer a land not his own. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [From Nergal-eṭ]ir. |
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 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x] KU₂ | |
| 4 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂] AGA a-pir | |
| 5 | LUGAL [a-ša₂-ri]-du-ti il-lak | |
| 6 | 1 30 AGA UD.ŠU₂.ŠU₂].⸢RU⸣ a-pir | |
| 7 | 30 KUR₂ i]-mah-ha-aṣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [UD.ŠU₂.ŠU₂.RU UD] er-pi | |
| 2 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂] ⸢SI ZAG⸣-šu₂ GID₂.DA-ma | |
| 3 | [SI] KAB-šu₂ ik-ru | |
| 4 | [LUGAL] KUR la šu-a-tum ŠU-su | |
| 5 | i-kaš-šad | |
| 6 | [ša₂ {1}{d}U.GUR—KAR]-ir | |
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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