RMA 055 (P336392)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 055 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336392 |
| 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 | The m[oon] will complete [the day] on the ev[ening] of the beginning of the year: it is favorable fo[r the king] my lord. |
| Obverse [3:12] o 44– | Concerning Mercury, about which the king my lord wrote to me: yesterday Issar-šumu-ereš had an argument with Nabû-ahhe-eriba in the palace. Later, at night, they went and all made observations; they saw (it) and were satisfied. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From B[a]lasî. |
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 [UD-mu] u₂-šal-lam | |
| 2 | ša ⸢ba⸣-[a-di] re-eš MU.AN.NA | |
| 3 | SIG₅ ⸢ša⸣ [LUGAL] EN-ia | |
| 4 | ina UGU {⸢mul⸣}UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 6 | it—ti-ma-li it—ti-ma-li {1}{d}15—MU—APIN-eš | |
| 7 | ina ŠA₃ E₂.GAL ṣa-a-su | |
| 8 | a-na {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU ig-di-ri | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i—da-a-ti i—da-a-ti ina nu-bat-ti | |
| 2 | it-ta-al-ku gab-bi-šu₂-nu it-ta-aṣ-ru | |
| 3 | e-ta-am-ru ip-tu-šu | |
| 4 | ša {1}⸢ba⸣-la-si-i | |
Sources & licences
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