RMA 141 (P336461)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 141 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336461 |
| 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: reliable speech will be placed in the mouth of people; the king [of the world] will make his throne la[st long]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1'r 1'– | [If at the appearance of the moon] the sting [of Scorpius] surrounds it [like a halo]: the flood will [come]. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 33–r 44 | Thi[s night], a halo surr[ounded the moon, al]l of Scorp[ius stood] inside it. |
| Reverse [6:8] r 55–r 66 | If at the moon's appearance the south wind blows: in this month there will be regularly south wind. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 77–r 77 | From Nabû-ahhe-eriba. |
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 {d}ša₂-maš šit-qu-lu | |
| 2 | at-mu-u₂ ke-e-nu | |
| 3 | ina KA UN-MEŠ iš-ša₂-kan | |
| 4 | LUGAL [kiš-ša₂-ti] {giš}GU.ZA u₂-[lab-bar] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ zi-qit {mul}GIR₂.TAB] | |
| zi-qi-it | ||
| 2' | [GIM TUR₃] NIGIN-šu₂ A.KAL ⸢DU⸣-[ak] | |
| il-me-šu₂ | ||
| 3 | {d}30 mu-šu₂ an]-ni-u₂ TUR₃ il-⸢ti⸣-[bi-šu₂] | |
| 4 | {mul}GIR₂.[TAB] ⸢gab⸣-bi-šu₂ ina ŠA₃-šu₂ it-⸢ti⸣-[it-zi] | |
| 5 | 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu₂ {im}U₁₈.LU DU-[ik] | |
| 6 | ina ITI BI {im}U₁₈.LU sa-dir | |
| 7 | ša₂ {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
Sources & licences
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