RMA 252 (P238062)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 252 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238062 |
| 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 a fog rolls in in Adar (XII): the land will go to ruin. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | [If] a rainbow stretches from the zenith to the horizon: Adad will not devastate. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | If a rainbow stretches over a city: the city, the king, and his nobles are safe. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | From Ahhešâ of Uruk. |
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 {iti}ŠE IM.DUGUD iq-tur | |
| 2 | KUR ⸢ar₂⸣-bu-tu DU-ak | |
| 3 | 1 {d}TIR.AN.NA ul-tu AN.PA | |
| 4 | ana AN.UR₂ GIL {d}IM NU RA-iṣ | |
| 5 | 1 {d}TIR.AN.NA UGU URU GIL | |
| 6 | URU LUGAL u NUN-MEŠ-šu₂ šal-mu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša₂ {1}ŠEŠ-MEŠ-ša₂-a {lu₂}UNUG{ki}a.a | |
Sources & licences
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