RMA 138a (P336458)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | RMA 138a |
|---|---|
| ID | P336458 |
| 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 reaches the sun and follows it closely, one horn meets the other: there will be truth in the land, and the son will speak the truth with his father. |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | If at the moon's appearance one horn [meets] the other: the flood will co[me]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | — On the 14th day it was seen together with the sun. |
| Reverse [1:6] r 22–r 66 | If on the 14th day the moon and sun are s[een] together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably; there will be joy among people: the king will become [happy; the c]attle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | From Akkullanu. |
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 {d}30 u {d}UTU šu-ta-tu-u | |
| 2 | LUGAL KUR uz-na DAGAL-aš₂ | |
| 3 | 1 {d}30 {d}UTU ik-šu-dam-ma | |
| 4 | it-ti-šu₂ it-ten-tu₄ qar-nu qar-nu i-dir | |
| 5 | ina KUR kit-tu₂ GAL₂-ši-ma DUMU KI AD-šu₂ | |
| 6 | kit-tum i-ta-am-me | |
| 7 | 1 {d}30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ qar-nu qar-nu [i-dir] | |
| 8 | A.KAL DU-⸢kam₂⸣ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | UD 14-KAM₂ KI {d}UTU IGI.LAL-⸢ma⸣ | |
| 2 | 1 UD 14-KAM₂ 30 u 20 KI a-ha-meš IGI-[MEŠ] | |
| 3 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{[ki]} | |
| 4 | ana {mi₂}SIG₅ i-[ha]-sa-su hu-ud ŠA₃ UN-MEŠ | |
| 5 | GAR-an ŠA₃ LUGAL [DUG₃-ab bu]-ul KUR—⸢URI{ki⸣} | |
| 6 | par-ga-niš ina ⸢EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ⸣ | |
| 7 | ša {1}ak-kul-la-ni | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- 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) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.