RMA 187a (P238065)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 187a |
|---|---|
| ID | P238065 |
| 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 J]upiter becomes visible in Iyyar (II): [the land wil]l eat abundant food. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | [If J]upiter becomes visible in the p[ath of the Anu stars: the flo]od will come, and the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | [If J]upiter is red at its appearance: there will be [abun]dance in Akkad. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | [If] Marduk reaches the Pleiades: there will be [...] ... |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [From A]šaredu the older, [servant] of the king. |
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]}SAG.ME.GAR ina {iti}GUD IGI | |
| 2 | [KUR] ⸢NINDA⸣-HI.A nap-ša₂ [ik]-kal | |
| 3 | 1 {mul]}SAG.ME.GAR ina ⸢KASKAL⸣ [šu-ut {d}a-nu] IGI | |
| 4 | [A].⸢KAL⸣ DU-ma BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 5 | 1 {mul]}SAG.ME.GAR ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ SA₅ | |
| 6 | [HE₂].⸢NUN⸣ ina KUR—URI{ki} GAL₂-ši | |
| 7 | 1 {d]}AMAR.UTU MUL.MUL KUR-ud | |
| 8 | [x x]-si-šu₂ GAL₂-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša₂ {1}a]-ša₂-ri-du IGI-u₂ | |
| 2 | [ARAD] ša₂ LUGAL | |
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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