RMA 252c (P238801)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 252c |
|---|---|
| ID | P238801 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [......] ... plenty for the people [......] plenty for the people [......] ...... [......] ... |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1'1'–r 4'4' | [...] as long as he lives [......] will not become clean [...] I shall not ... [......] I shall speak to the king. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [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 | [x x x x x]-nu-ni nu-huš UN-MEŠ | |
| 2 | [x x x] nu-huš UN-[MEŠ x x] | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ x | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x a]-di UD-mu bal-ṭu | |
| 2' | [x x x]-ia ul i-zak-ku | |
| 3' | [x x x] ul a-da-KUR | |
| 4' | [x x x] a-na LUGAL a-qab-bi | |
| 5' | [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)
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