RMA 008 (P336375)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 008 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336375 |
| 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 | [If] the moon [becomes visible] on the 1st day: reliable speech; [the land will become] happy. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If the day reaches its normal [length]: a reign of lo[ng] days. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55– | [The moon] will comp[lete ......] ... the 30th day. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | [If the moon becomes visible] on the 1st day: good for A[kkad], bad for Elam [and the Westland]. On the 14th day [it will be seen] with the sun. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | From Balasî. |
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 UD 01-KAM₂\t [IGI] | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ [KUR DUG₃] | |
| 3 | 1 UD ana mi-na-ti-šu₂ [e-ri-ik] | |
| 4 | BALA UD-MEŠ GID₂.[DA-MEŠ] | |
| 5 | {[d}30 UD 30-KAM₂\t ⸢x x⸣ [x x] | |
| 6 | u₂-šal-[lam-ma] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 30 UD 01-KAM₂\t [IGI] | |
| 2 | SIG₅ ⸢KUR⸣—[URI{ki]} | |
| 3 | HUL NIM.MA{⸢ki⸣} [u MAR.TU{ki]} | |
| 4 | [o] ⸢UD 14-KAM₂\t KI⸣ {d}UTU [in-na-mar] | |
| 5 | ša {1}ba-la-si-i | |
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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