RMA 199 (P238332)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 199 |
|---|---|
| ID | P238332 |
| 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 | A sign which is unfavorable for the king is favorable for the land; a sign which is favorable for the land is unfav[orable] for the king. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | The king will say, "From what shall I see (that)?" |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If Regulus comes close to the front of the moon and stands there: the days of the ruler will come to an end; a confusing word will be solved in the land; for the land, favorable. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | If Regulus [comes close] to the top of the moon and stands there: the king will live for many days; [the land will not prosper ......] bad. |
| Right [0:1] r.e. 1r.e. 1–r.e. 1r.e. 1 | From Nergal-eṭir. |
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 | GISKIM ša₂ a-na LUGAL lem-ne₂-ti a-na KUR dam-qat | |
| 2 | GISKIM ša₂ a-na KUR dam-qa-ti a-na LUGAL lem-⸢ne₂⸣-[et] | |
| 3 | i-na mi-ni-i lu-mur LUGAL i-qab-bi-ma | |
| 4 | 1 {mul}LUGAL ana IGI 30 TE-ma GUB UD-MEŠ NUN TIL-MEŠ | |
| 5 | a-mat te-še-e ina KUR DU₈-ar₂ ana KUR SIG₅ | |
| 6 | 1 {mul}LUGAL ana UGU 30 [SI₄]-⸢ma⸣ GUB LUGAL UD-MEŠ ma-aʾ-du-tu₂ DIN-uṭ | |
| 7 | KUR NU SI.[SA₂ x x x x x x x] HUL | |
| 8 | [x x x x x x x x x x x x x] na du | |
| r.e. | ||
| 1 | ša₂ {1}{d}U.GUR—KAR⸣-[ir] | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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