RMA 114a (P238580)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 114a |
|---|---|
| ID | P238580 |
| 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 the moon] is surrounded by a halo, and Can[cer] stands in it: the king of Akkad [will extend the life]. |
| Obverse [2:5] o 33–o 55 | If the sun stands in the halo of the moon: (in) all lands (people) will speak [the truth]; the son will speak the truth with his father. |
| Obverse [5:8] o 66–o 88 | [If] the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Regulus stands in it: pregnant women will give birth to male children. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | From Zakir. |
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 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma {mul}AL.[LUL] | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB LUGAL URI{ki} [TIN ur-rak] | |
| 3 | 1 20 ina TUR₃ 30 GUB KUR ⸢DU₃.A⸣.[BI kit-tu₂] | |
| 4 | i-ta-mu-u₂ DUMU KI AD-šu₂ | |
| 5 | kit-tu₂ i-ta-mi | |
| 6 | 1 30 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma {mul}LUGAL ina ŠA₃-šu₂ | |
| 7 | GUB-iz {mi₂}PEŠ₄-MEŠ NITA-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 8 | U₃.TU-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša₂ {1}za-⸢kir⸣ | |
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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