RMA 076 (P336406)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 076 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336406 |
| 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 | If the moon becomes visible in Tebet (X) on the 30th day: the Ahlamû will devour Subartu; a foreigner will rule the Westland. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | Tebet (X) means Elam. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | From Bulluṭu. |
| Reverse [0:5] r 1r 1–r 55 | We watched on the 29th day; the clouds were den[se], we did not see the moon. We watched on the 30th day; we saw the moon, (but) it was (already) very high. The (weather) of the 29th day has to do with it. |
| Reverse [5:7] r 66–r 77 | What is it that the king my lord says? |
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}AB UD 30-KAM₂ IGI [o] | |
| 2 | SU.BIR₄{ki} ah-la-mu-u KU₂ | |
| 3 | EME BAR-tum KUR—MAR.TU EN-⸢el⸣ | |
| 4 | {iti}AB {kur}NIM.MA{ki} | |
| 5 | ša {1}bu-ul-lu-ṭu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 29-KAM₂ ni-ta-ṣar IM.DIRI dan-[nat] | |
| 2 | {d}30 la ne₂-mur | |
| 3 | UD 30-KAM₂ ni-ta-ṣar {d}30 ne₂-ta-⸢mar⸣ | |
| 4 | ma-ti-ih a—dan-niš [o] | |
| 5 | ša UD 29-KAM₂ šu-u₂ [o] | |
| 6 | ina UGU-hi qur-bu mi₃-i-nu | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ i-qa-bu-u-[ni] | |
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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