RMA 136 (P336449)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 136 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336449 |
| 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] 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 wil[l lie] in the steppe undisturbed. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | If the moon and sun are in balance: the land will become stable; reliable speech [will be placed] in the m[outh of people]; the king of the land will make the throne last long. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77– | If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely, and one horn me[ets] the other: there will be truth [in] the land, and the son will [speak] the truth with his father. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [If the moon and sun] are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | [From NN]. |
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\t 30 u 20 KI a-ha-⸢meš⸣ [IGI.LAL-MEŠ] | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} ana [SIG₅-tim] | |
| 3 | i-ha-as-sa-su hu-ud ŠA₃-bi ERIM-HI.A ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [LUGAL DUG₃] | |
| 4 | bu-ul KUR—URI{ki} par-ga-niš ina EDIN i-⸢rab⸣-[bi-iṣ] | |
| 5 | 1 30 u 20 šit-qu₂-lu KUR i-kan at-mu-u ki-nu ina ⸢KA⸣ [UN-MEŠ GAR-an] | |
| 6 | LUGAL KUR AŠ.TE SUMUN-[bar] | |
| 7 | 1 30 20 KUR-ma KI-šu₂ it-ten-tu₂ SI SI i-⸢dir⸣ | |
| 8 | [ina] KUR kit-tu₂ GAL₂-ma DUMU KI AD-šu₂ kit-tu₂ i-[ta-mi] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 30 u 20 ⸢šu⸣-ta-tu-u LUGAL KUR uz-nu DAGAL-[aš₂] | |
| 2 | [ša {1}x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x] | |
Sources & licences
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