RMA 136-137 (P240347)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 136-137 |
|---|---|
| ID | P240347 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [If the moon and sun are in opp]osition: [the king of the land] will widen his [understanding. — On the 14th day the moon] is seen with the sun. |
| Obverse [3:7] o 44–o 77 | [If the moon and sun] are in balance: [the land wi]ll become stable; reliable speech will be placed in the mouth of people; the king of the land will make the throne last long. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | — [On the 14th day] the moon is seen with the sun. |
| Reverse [1:5] r 22–r 55 | [If on the 14th day] the moon and sun are seen [together]: reliable speech; the land will become happy; [the gods] will remember Akkad favorably; there will be [joy] among people. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [From Adad-šum]u-uṣur. |
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 u 20 šu]-ta-tu-u₂ | |
| 2 | [LUGAL KUR uz-na] u₂-rap-pa-aš₂ | |
| 3 | [UD 14-KAM 30 KI] 20 IGI.LAL-ma | |
| 4 | 1 30 u 20 šit-qul-lu | |
| 5 | [KUR i]-ka-nu at-mu-u₂ ki-i-nu | |
| 6 | [ina] pi-i UN-MEŠ GAR-an | |
| 7 | LUGAL KUR {giš}GU.ZA u₂-lab-bar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [UD 14-KAM] 30 KI 20 IGI.LAL-ma | |
| 2 | 1 UD 14-KAM 30 u₃ {d}UTU | |
| 3 | [KI a-ha]-⸢meš⸣ IGI-ME KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃.GA | |
| 4 | [DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki]} ana {mi₂}SIG₅ i-ha-as-sa-su | |
| 5 | [hu-ud ŠA₃-bi] UN-MEŠ GAR-an | |
| 6 | [ša₂ {1}{d}IM]—⸢MU⸣—PAB | |
Sources & licences
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