RMA 136e (P336451)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 136e |
|---|---|
| ID | P336451 |
| 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 and sun are in opposition: the king [of the land] will widen [his understanding]. |
| Obverse [2:6] o 33–o 66 | If the moon [and sun are in bal]ance: [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 [6:14] o 77– | If [the moon and sun] are seen together [on the 14th day: reliable] sp[eech; 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 [4:5] r 55–r 55 | From Nabû-mušeṣi. |
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 šu-ta-tu-u₂ | |
| 2 | LUGAL [KUR uz-nu u₂]-rap-pa-aš₂ | |
| 3 | 1 30 [u 20 šit-qu]-lu | |
| 4 | [KUR GI.NA at-mu-u] ⸢ke⸣-e-nu | |
| 5 | [ina KA UN-MEŠ iš]-ša₂-kan | |
| 6 | [LUGAL KUR AŠ.TE u₂]-lab-bar | |
| 7 | 1 30 u 20 UD 14-KAM KI a]-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ⸢KA⸣ [GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR] DUG₃.GA | |
| 9 | DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} a-na SIG₅-tim | |
| r | ||
| 1 | i-ha-sa-a-su | |
| 2 | HUL₂ ŠA₃ ERIM-ni ŠA₃ LUGAL DUG₃.GA | |
| 3 | MAŠ₂.ANŠE-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} par₂-ga-niš | |
| 4 | ina EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ | |
| 5 | ša {1}{d}AG—mu-še-ṣi | |
Sources & licences
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