RMA 053 (P336390)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 053 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336390 |
| 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 1'1'–o 2'2' | [the moon will com]plete the day in Adar (XII); on the 14th day it will be see[n together] with (the sun). |
| Obverse [2:6] o 3'3'–o 6'6' | [The moon] will reject the day in Nisan (I); [the moon] will reject the day in Iyyar (II); [the moon] will be close to rejecting in Sivan (III). Much [... is] not before me. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 7'7'– | [...] the king of kings [......] |
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' | {[d}30 ina] {⸢iti⸣}ŠE UD-mu u₂-[šal-lam] | |
| 2' | ⸢UD⸣ 14-KAM₂ it-ti {<d}UTU> in-[nam-mar-ma] | |
| 3' | {[d}30 ina {iti}BARAG UD-mu u₂-tar-ra | |
| 4' | {[d}30 ina {iti}GUD UD-mu u₂-tar-ra | |
| 5' | {[d}30 ina {iti}SIG₄ a-na tur-ra qe₂-ru-ub | |
| 6' | [x x] ⸢ma⸣-aʾ-du ina pa-ni-ia₂ ul [x x] | |
| 7' | [x x]+⸢x⸣ LUGAL ša₂ LUGAL-MEŠ [x x x] | |
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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