RMA 131 (P336447)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 131 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336447 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [If the moon and sun] are in balance: the land will become stable: reliable [speech] will be placed [in the mouth] of people; [the king] of the land will make his throne last long. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | [If the moon] and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. |
| Obverse [6:15] o 77– | If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably; joy among the troops; the king will become happy; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From Bulluṭu. |
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 u 20 šit-qu-lu KUR i-ka-na | |
| 2 | [at-mu]-u₂ ke-e-nu | |
| 3 | [ina KA] UN-MEŠ GAR-an | |
| 4 | [LUGAL] KUR AŠ.TE SUMUN-bar | |
| 5 | 1 30 u 20 šu-ta-tu-u₂ | |
| 6 | ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR uz-nu u₂-rap-pa-aš₂ | |
| 7 | 1 UD 14-KAM 30 u 20 KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 8 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃-bi KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 9 | DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 10 | a-na SIG₅-tim i-ha-sa-su | |
| 11 | hu-ud ŠA₃-bi ERIM-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ŠA₃-bi LUGAL DUG₃-ab | |
| 2 | MAŠ₂.ANŠE KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 3 | ina EDIN par-ga-niš NA₂-iṣ | |
| 4 | ša {1}bu-ul-lu-ṭi | |
Sources & licences
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