RMA 074 (P336404)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 074 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336404 |
| 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] 11–33 | If the moon becom[es visible] on the 30th day: there will be frost, variant: rumor of the enemy. |
| Obverse [3:7] 44– | If (the moon) becomes visible in Kislev (IX) on the 30th day: the king of the Westland will fall in battle. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | The Westland [......; the] sign concerns th[em]. Should it be re[pea]ted (in Tebet), it would [concern] us. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | From the Chief Scribe. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 30 UD 30-KAM₂\t ⸢IGI⸣.[LAL] | |
| 2 | šu-ru-up-pu-[u] | |
| 3 | KI.MIN GU₃ KUR₂ GAL₂-ši | |
| 4 | 1 ina {iti}GAN UD 30-KAM₂ IGI.LAL | |
| 5 | LUGAL MAR.TU{ki} | |
| 6 | ina {giš}TUKUL ŠUB-⸢ut⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | KUR—MAR.TU{ki} e-[x x] | |
| 2 | it-tu iš-ša₂-⸢nu⸣-[u šu-u] | |
| 3 | lu-u sa-[di]-⸢ri⸣ | |
| 4 | ina UGU-hi-ni i-[qar-rib] | |
| 5 | ša₂ {lu₂v}GAL—A.BA {lu₂v}GAL—A.BA | |
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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