RMA 021 (P336378)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 021 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336378 |
| 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 long days. |
| Obverse [4:13] o 55– | Twice or thrice we watched for Mars today (but) we did not see (it), it has set. Maybe the king my lord will say as follows: "Is there any (ominous) sign in (the fact) that it set?" (I answer): "There is not." |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | From Issar-šumu-ereš. |
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-KAM IGI.LAL | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃.GA | |
| 3 | 1 UD-mu a-na mi-na-ti-šu₂ e-ri-ik | |
| 4 | BALA UD-MEŠ GID₂-MEŠ | |
| 5 | {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu 02-u₂ 03-šu₂ | |
| 6 | ina UD-me an-ni-i ni-ta-ṣar | |
| 7 | la ne₂-e-mur | |
| 8 | ir-te-bi | |
| r | ||
| 1 | is—su-ri LUGAL be-li i-qab-bi | |
| 2 | ma-a GISKIM-šu₂-u₂ me-me-ni i-ba-ši | |
| 3 | ša ir-bu-u-ni | |
| 4 | la-aš₂-šu₂ | |
| 5 | ša {1}15—MU—KAM | |
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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