RMA 068 (P336400)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 068 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336400 |
| 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 in] Sivan (III) becomes visible on the 30th day: the Ahlamû will devour [the wealth] of the Westland. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | [If the moon] becomes visible on the 30th day: frost; there will be rumor of the enemy. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | [If at the moon's] appearance the north wind blows: that month the flood will come. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | [If at the sun's] rising a cloudbank lies to its right: Adad will devastate. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | Mars has departed, it goes forward; it will become stationary [in] Scorpius. [To]morrow I shall inform the king my lord. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | [From] B[alas]î. |
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 ina] {⸢iti⸣}SIG₄ UD 30-KAM₂\t IGI | |
| 2 | [ṭuh-du] a-mur-ri-i ah-la-mu-u KU₂ | |
| 3 | 1 30 UD 30-KAM₂\t IGI šu-ru-up-pu-u | |
| 4 | ri-gim KUR₂ GAL₂-ši | |
| 5 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ {im}SI.SA₂ DU | |
| 6 | ITI BI A.KAL DU-kam₂\t | |
| 7 | 1 20 ina KUR-šu₂ ina 15-šu₂ ni-du na-[di] | |
| 8 | {d}IM RA-iṣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu ut-ta-me-iš | |
| 2 | a-na pa-na-tu-uš-šu₂ il-lak | |
| 3 | [ina] ⸢ŠA₃⸣ {mul}GIR₂.TAB in-ne₂-me-da | |
| 4 | [ina] ši-i-a-ri a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | u₂-šah-ka-am | |
| 6 | [ša] {1}⸢ba⸣-[la]-⸢si⸣-i | |
Sources & licences
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