RMA 243a (P238063)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 243a |
|---|---|
| ID | P238063 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [If] the Pleiades enter the moon and come out to the north: Akkad will become happy; the king of Akkad will become strong and have no rival. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | From Ṭabiya. |
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.MUL ana ŠA₃ 30 TU-MEŠ-ma | |
| 2 | ana {im}SI.SA₂ E₃-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ŠA₃-bi KUR—URI{ki} i-ṭa-ab | |
| 4 | LUGAL URI{ki} i-dan-nin-ma | |
| 5 | GABA.RI NU TUK-ši | |
| 6 | ša₂ {1}ṭa-bi-ia | |
Sources & licences
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