RMA 024 (P238068)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 024 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238068 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | [If the moon] becomes visible on the 29]th day: Adad will devastate. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | [......] ... on the 29th the moon [beca]me visible. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | [If the day is short compared to its normal leng]th: a reign of short days; [...] there will be unreliable speech, [bad] ways in the land. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | [From the ... day] until the 30th day, until the month [......] the month of Elam. |
| Obverse [8:9] o 99–o 99 | [From Bel-le'i], descendant of Egibi, exorcist. |
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 30 UD 29-KAM₂ IGI.LAL {d}IM RA-iṣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 3 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ra UD 29-KAM₂ {d}30 ⸢IGI⸣.LAL | |
| 4 | 1 UD ana ŠID-MEŠ-šu LUGUD₂].⸢DA⸣ BALA UD-mu LUGUD₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [x x x] KA la ki-ni a-lak-ti | |
| 6 | [la ṭa-ab]-⸢ti⸣ ina KUR TUK-ši | |
| 7 | [x x x]-KAM₂ EN UD 30-KAM₂ EN ITI | |
| 8 | [x x x] ITI {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| 9 | [ša₂ {1}{d}EN—DA] DUMU {1}e-gi-bi {lu₂}MAŠ.MAŠ | |
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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