RMA 098 (P336425)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 098 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336425 |
| 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 2o 2 | If the moon is surrounded by a black halo: the month holds rain, variant: clouds will be gathered. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 44–o 44 | — Saturn stands in the halo of the moon. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 55– | If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Mars stands in it: loss of cattle; the Westland will become smaller. |
| Obverse [11:12] o 88–o 88 | That is bad for the Westland. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1– | If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Regulus stands in it: in that year pregnant women [wil]l give birth to male children. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 44–r 44 | — Re[gulus] stands in the halo of the moon. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 55–r 55 | [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 {d}30 TUR₃ GI₆ NIGIN o | |
| ṣa-al-mu | ||
| 2 | ITI A.AN u₂-kal KI.MIN IM.DIRI-[MEŠ] | |
| ar-hu zu-un-nu u₂-ka-la ur-pa-a-ti | ||
| 3 | uk-ta-ṣa-ra | |
| 4 | {mul}UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ ina TUR₃ {d}30 i-za-az-ma | |
| 5 | 1 {d}30 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma {mul}ṣal-bat-a-nu | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB-iz ZAH₂ MAŠ₂.ANŠE | |
| bu-u-li | ||
| 7 | KUR—MAR.TU{ki} TUR-ir | |
| ma-at a-mur-re-e | ||
| 8 | lum-nu ša₂ KUR a-mur-re-e šu-u | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {d}30 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma {mul}LUGAL | |
| 2 | ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB-iz ina MU BI {mi₂}PEŠ₄-MEŠ | |
| e-ra-a-ti | ||
| 3 | NITA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [U₃].TU-MEŠ | |
| zak-ka-⸢ri⸣ [ul]-la-da | ||
| 4 | {mul}[LUGAL ina] TUR₃ 30 GUB-ma | |
| 5 | [ša {1}{d}PA]—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
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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