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RMA 116 (P238123)

Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE

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DesignationRMA 116
IDP238123
Museum no.BM —
CollectionBritish Museum, London, UK
LanguageAkkadian
PeriodNeo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
GenreDivination
Find spotNineveh (mod. Kuyunjik)
Coordinates36.3582, 43.1621

English translation

By ORACC project saao/saa08 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)

LineEnglish
Obverse [0:1] o 1'1'–o 1'1'[...... the floo]d will come. A halo of plenty is a halo [......].
Obverse [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2'[...] on the 5th day is surrounded by a halo and [......].
Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4'[If the moon] at night (and) the sun during daytime [is surrounded] by a halo: [...] it will rain.

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)

LineATFMachine English (draft)
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1'[x x A].⸢KAL⸣ DU-kam TUR₃ HE₂.NUN TUR₃ [x x]
2'[x x] UD 05-KAM₂ TUR₃ NIGIN₂-ma [x x]
3'1 30 ina MI 20 ina ur-ri TUR₃ [NIGIN]
4'[x x] AN-u₂ ŠUR-nun [o]

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