RMA 057 (P336394)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 057 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336394 |
| 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 28th [day]: good for Akkad, bad for E[lam]. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | The moon st[ood there] on the 28th day. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 4o 4– | This sign counterbalances the sign o[f the 12th day]. |
| Reverse [0:9] r 1r 1–r 77 | When I wr[ote] to the king my lord, saying "the gods have opened the ears of the king [my lord]," (I meant) if something [happens] to [the king and] he worries, th[e gods ...] first send a message fr[om heaven] saying: ["Let him be on his guard", ......]. |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | The king my lord [......]. |
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] 28-KAM IGI⸣.[LAL] | |
| 2 | ⸢SIG₅⸣ KUR—URI{ki} HUL {kur}⸢NIM⸣.[MA{ki]} | |
| 3 | [o] UD 28-KAM {d}30 iz-[za-az-ma] | |
| 4 | ⸢GISKIM⸣ me-hir GISKIM ⸢ša⸣ [UD 12-KAM] | |
| [it]-tu₂ me-hi-ir it-ti | ||
| 5 | šu-u₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša a-na LUGAL EN-ia aš₂-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni] | |
| 2 | mu-uk PI-MEŠ ša LUGAL [EN-ia] | |
| uz-ni | ||
| 3 | DINGIR-MEŠ-ni u₂-pat-⸢ti⸣-[u] | |
| 4 | šum₂-ma me-me-ni a-na [LUGAL DU-ka] | |
| 5 | TA@v ŠA₃-šu₂ i-da-bu-ub ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ-ni] | |
| 6 | i-har-ru-pu GISKIM TA@v ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [AN-e] | |
| it-tu₂ | ||
| 7 | [i]-⸢šap⸣-par-u-ni ma-a [lu-u e-ti-ik] | |
| 8 | [x x x] a ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | LUGAL be-li₂ [x x x x] | |
| 2 | [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x 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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