RMA 070 (P336402)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 070 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336402 |
| 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 in Sivan (III) 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: there will be frost, variant: rumor of the enemy. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | If the moon at its appearance is visible early: the month will bring worry. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | 2 months after each other (the moon) rejected the day, Iyyar (II) (and) Sivan (III). |
| Obverse [8:12] o 9o 9– | If a cloudbank lies to the right of the sun: Adad will devastate, variant: rains and floods will come. |
| Reverse [1:4] r 22–r 44 | Mars has turned around, started moving, and is going forward in Scorpius; that is a bad sign. |
| Reverse [4:8] r 55–r 88 | Let them finish the muster quickly. The going out of the king my lord should be rare, until we see how (Mars) moves and stands. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | From Nabû-ahhe-eriba. |
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 MAR.TU{ki} ah-la-ma-a KU₂ | |
| 3 | 1 30 UD 30-KAM₂\t IGI šu-ru-up-pu-u | |
| 4 | KI.MIN ri-gim {lu₂}KUR₂ GAL₂-ši | |
| 5 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ har-piš na-an-mur | |
| 6 | ITI ni-ziq-tu₂ ub-ba-la | |
| 7 | 02 ITI-MEŠ da-rat a-he-e-iš | |
| 8 | UD-mu ut-tir{ir}ra {iti}GUD {iti}SIG₄ | |
| 9 | 1 ina 15 20 ni-du na-di | |
| i-mit-ti {d}ša₂-maš | ||
| 10 | {d}IM RA-iṣ KI.MIN A.AN-MEŠ A.KAL-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | il-lak-u-ni | |
| 2 | {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu is-su-uh-ur | |
| 3 | ut-ta-me-iš ina pa-na-tu-uš-šu₂ ina ŠA₃ {mul}GIR₂.TAB | |
| 4 | il-lak lum-nu šu-u₂ | |
| 5 | ma-šar-tu₂ ar₂-hi-iš lu-gam-me-ru | |
| 6 | uṣ-ṣu-u₂ ša LUGAL EN-ia lu-u u₂-qur | |
| 7 | a-du ne₂-mar-u-ni a-ke-e ša il-lak-u-ni | |
| 8 | iz-za-zu-u-ni | |
| 9 | ša {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
Sources & licences
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