RMA 129 (P336445)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 129 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336445 |
| 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 [0:6] o 1o 1–o 66 | [If] on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: reliable speech, the land will become happy; [the god]s will remember Akkad favorably; joy among the troops; the king will become happy; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. |
| Obverse [6:11] o 77– | If the moon and sun are in balance: the land will bec[ome stable]; reliable speech will be placed in the mouth of people; the king of the land will make his throne last long. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 11–r 11 | [From Is]sar-šumu-ereš. |
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 ⸢UD⸣ 14-KAM₂ 30 u 20 KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃.GA-ab | |
| 3 | [DINGIR]-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} a-na SIG₅-tim i-ha-sa-su | |
| 4 | hu-ud ŠA₃-bi ERIM-ni ŠA₃ LUGAL DUG₃.GA-[ab] | |
| 5 | MAŠ₂.ANŠE-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 6 | par₂-ga-niš ina EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ | |
| 7 | 1 30 u 20 šit-qu-lu | |
| 8 | ⸢KUR GI⸣.[NA] at-mu-u₂ ke-e-nu | |
| 9 | ina KA UN-MEŠ i-ša₂-kan | |
| 10 | LUGAL KUR {giš}GU.ZA u₂-lab-bar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša {1}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
Sources & licences
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