RMA 253a (P238061)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 253a |
|---|---|
| ID | P238061 |
| 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] Adad thund[ers] on the day of disappearance of the moon: the irrigated field will prosper; business will become stable. |
| Obverse [2:6] o 33– | If it rains on the day of disappearance of the moon: the harvest will be brought in, and business will become stable. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | From Aplaya. |
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 ina] UD.NA₂.A UD.NA₂.A {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ [ŠUB] | |
| 2 | KI.A SI.SA₂ KI.LAM GI.NA | |
| 3 | 1 ina UD.NA₂.A UD.NA₂.A AN ŠUR-nun | |
| 4 | BURU₁₄ i-na-aš₂-šam-ma | |
| 5 | KI.LAM GI.NA | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša₂ {1}DUMU.UŠ-a | |
Sources & licences
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