RMA 118 (P336437)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 118 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336437 |
| 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 is surrounded by a river: there will be great floods and cloudbreaks. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | — The Frond star st[ood] in it. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55– | If the moon is surrounded by a halo and the Bo[w star stands in it]: men will rage, and robberies will [become frequent] in the land. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | From Nabû-muše[ṣi]. |
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 ID₂ NIGIN-⸢me⸣ | |
| 2 | ri-ih-ṣu u ra-a-du | |
| 3 | GAL-MEŠ GAL₂-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 4 | {mul}A.EDIN ina ŠA₃-bi i-⸢zi⸣-[iz-ma] | |
| 5 | 1 30 TUR₃ NIGIN-ma {mul}{d}⸢BAN⸣ [ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB] | |
| 6 | GURUŠ-MEŠ in-na-[da-ru-ma] | |
| 7 | hu-ub-bu-tu ina KUR [i-man-du] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša {1}{d}PA—mu-še-[ṣi] | |
Sources & licences
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