RMA 112 (P336434)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 112 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336434 |
| 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] is surrounded [by a halo] and Cancer stands [in it]: the king of Akkad will extend the life. |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | This [night] (the moon) was surrounded by a halo, it did not close. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [If] the moon is surrounded by a drawing: there will be an eclipse. |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | Eclipse (means) trouble. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | This night (the moon) was surrounded by a drawing, it did not close. |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77– | If Venus comes close to Scorpius: winds which are not good will blow towards the land; Adad will give his rains, and Ea his springs, to the Gutian land. |
| Reverse [2:8] r 33–r 88 | If (Venus) came close to the Breast of Scorpius, it would be copied like this; now so far she has not approached it; when she will have approached she will not come close, she will pass at some distance. The planets pass like this above the stars which are in their path. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | [If] the Frond star reaches the Pleiades: Adad will devastate. |
| Right [0:4] r.e. 10r.e. 10– | Mars did not approach the Fish-of-the-Sky [...] ..., it departed from it. ... [......]. |
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 TUR₃] NIGIN-ma {mul}AL.LUL | |
| 2 | [ina ŠA₃-šu₂] GUB-iz LUGAL URI{ki} TI.LA ur-rak | |
| 3 | [mu-šu] an-ni-u₂ TUR₃ NIGIN la ik-ṣur | |
| 4 | 1 {d}30 GIŠ.HUR NIGIN AN.MI GAR-an | |
| 5 | AN.MI du-luh-hu-u | |
| 6 | mu-šu an-ni-u₂ GIŠ.HUR NIGIN la ik-ṣur | |
| 7 | 1 {mul}dil-bat a-na {mul}GIR₂.TAB TE-hi | |
| 8 | TU₁₅-MEŠ NU DUG₃.GA-MEŠ a-na KUR il-la-ku | |
| ša₂-ra-a-ni la ṭa-bu-u-ti | ||
| r | ||
| 1 | {d}IM A.AN-MEŠ-šu₂ {d}E₂.A nag-bi-šu₂ | |
| 2 | ana KUR gu-ti-e i-nam-din | |
| 3 | ki-ma a-na {mul}GABA—GIR₂.TAB iṭ-ṭi-hi | |
| 4 | a-ki an-ni-e in-na-sa-ha u₂-ma-a | |
| 5 | u₂-di-na ina ŠA₃-bi la i-qar-rib ki-ma iq-ṭi-ri-ib | |
| 6 | la i-ṭa-ah-hi i-pa-at-ti et-ti-iq | |
| 7 | {mul}UDU.IDIM-MEŠ a-ki ha-an-ni-e MUL-MEŠ-šu₂-nu | |
| 8 | ⸢ša⸣ ina IGI KASKAL-šu₂-nu ina UGU-hi-šu₂-nu et-ti-qu | |
| 9 | 1 {mul]}A.EDIN ana MUL.MUL KUR-ud {d}IM RA-iṣ | |
| r.e. | ||
| 10 | {[mul]}⸢ṣal⸣-bat-a-nu ina UGU {mul}KU₆—AN-e | |
| 11 | [x x (x)] ri-ih-ṣi la iq-ri-ib | |
| 12 | ⸢TA@v⸣ pa-ni-šu₂ ip-ti-e-ti | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | x še ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | a ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x x] | |
Sources & licences
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