RMA 274q (P240143)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 274q |
|---|---|
| ID | P240143 |
| 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 | The night of the 13th day there was no observation; let the son of the king sleep. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | The n[ight] of the 14th day there was no observation; let the son of the king sleep. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | The ni[ght of] the 15th day there was no observation; let the son of the king sleep. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | The night of the 16th day, a great observation: the moon made an [ecli]pse; this eclipse of the moon [......] and |
| Reverse [0:1] r 8'8'–r 8'8' | [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 | mu-ši ša₂ UD 13-KAM EN.NUN ia-aʾ-nu | |
| 2 | DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL li-it-til | |
| 3 | ⸢mu⸣-[ši] ša₂ UD 14-KAM₂ EN.NUN ia-aʾ-nu | |
| 4 | DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL li-it-til | |
| 5 | mu-[ši ša₂] UD 15-KAM₂ EN.NUN ia-aʾ-nu | |
| 6 | DUMU—LUGAL DUMU—LUGAL li-it-til | |
| 7 | mu-ši ša₂ UD 16-KAM₂ EN.NUN GAL-ti | |
| 8 | [AN].MI {d}30 GAR-⸢an⸣ AN.MI šu-a-ti | |
| 9 | {d}30 [x x x x x x x]-ma | |
| r | ||
| 8' | [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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