RMA 181 (P240145)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 181 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240145 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | If the sun rises and (is as if) dyed red: this land will disappear. |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | If the sun rises and is red: plenty for the people, variant: battle will be done in the land, variant: rebellion, variant: losses for the king of all lands. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If the sun at its rising carries red radiance: an eclipse will take place, and Adad will devastate. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66– | The morning watch concerns Elam. This sign came at sunrise. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | If Adad thunders in Iyyar (II): emmer wheat and flax will not prosper. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | The star about which I spoke to the king my lord is very faint; it has not yet ascended, and so I have not identified it. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | 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 20 KUR-ma SA₅ ṣa-rip KUR BI ZAH₂ | |
| 2 | 1 20 KUR-ma SA₅ nu-huš UN-ME ME₃ ina KUR GAR | |
| 3 | HI.GAR tam-ṭa-a-ti ana LUGAL KUR DU₃.A.BI | |
| 4 | 1 20 ina KUR-šu₂ ŠE.ER.ZI SA₅ IL₂ AN.MI GAR-ma | |
| 5 | {d}IM RA-iṣ | |
| 6 | EN.NUN ša₂ še-e-ri ša₂ {kur}NIM{ki} | |
| 7 | ina ni-pi-ih {d}UTU it-tum an-nit | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ta-at-tal-ka | |
| 2 | 1 ina {iti}GUD {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB ZIZ₂.AM₃ | |
| 3 | u GU-u₂ NU SI.SA₂-ME | |
| 4 | MUL ša₂ ana LUGAL EN-ia₂ aq-bu ma-aʾ-diš | |
| 5 | un-nu-ut a-din-nu ul i-šaq-qam-ma | |
| 6 | ul u₂-mas-si | |
| 7 | ša₂ {1}za-kir | |
Sources & licences
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