RMA 136i (P336452)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 136i |
|---|---|
| ID | P336452 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1–o 77 | [If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen] together: reli[able speech]; the land will become happy; [the gods] will remember [Akkad] favorab[ly; joy among] the troops; [the king will become happy; the cattle] of Akkad will l[ie in the steppe] undisturbed. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [If the moon and] sun are in opposition: [the king] of the land will wid[en his un]derstanding. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | — On the 14th [day] the moon will be seen [with] the sun. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | [If] the moon and [sun are] in balance: relia[ble sp]eech will be placed [in the mouth] of people; [the king] of the land will make the [thr]one last long. |
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 it-ti a-ha-meš | |
| 2 | [IGI-MEŠ KA GI].⸢NA⸣ ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 3 | [DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} ana] SIG₅ i-ha-sa-su | |
| 4 | [hu-ud ŠA₃-bi] ERIM-ni | |
| 5 | [ŠA₃ LUGAL DUG₃ MAŠ₂.ANŠE] KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 6 | [ina EDIN] par-ga-niš | |
| 7 | [i-rab]-bi-iṣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 30 u] 20 šu-ta-tu-u | |
| 2 | [LUGAL] KUR uz-[nu u₂]-⸢rap-pa⸣-aš₂ | |
| 3 | [UD] 14-KAM₂ {d}30 [KI] {d}UTU IGI-ma | |
| 4 | 1 30 u 20 šit]-qu-lu | |
| 5 | [at]-mu-u ki-[i-nu ina KA] UN-MEŠ GAR-an | |
| 6 | [LUGAL] KUR {giš}[GU].ZA u₂-lab-bar | |
Sources & licences
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