RMA 273 (P240250)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 273 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240250 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | On the 14th day the moon will make an eclipse. It (predicts) evil for Elam and the Westland, good for the king my lord. Let the king my lord be happy. |
| Obverse [6:12] o 77– | (Already) when Venus became visible, I said to the king my lord: "An eclipse will take place." |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From Rašil the older, servant of [the king]. |
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 | UD 14-KAM₂ AN.MI {d}30 i-šak-kan | |
| 2 | HUL ša₂ {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| 3 | u KUR—MAR.TU{ki} | |
| 4 | SIG₅ ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 5 | ŠA₃-bi ša₂ LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 6 | lu-u₂ ṭa-a-bi | |
| 7 | ul-tu {mul}dil-bat | |
| 8 | in-nam-mar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | a-na LUGAL be-li₂-ia | |
| 2 | aq-ta-bi | |
| 3 | um-ma AN.MI iš-šak-kan | |
| 4 | ša₂ {1}TUK-⸢ši⸣—DINGIR | |
| 5 | ARAD ša₂ [LUGAL pa]-nu-u₂ | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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