RMA 152 (P336468)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 152 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336468 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | 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; happiness of the army; the king will become happy; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66– | If the moon and sun are in balance: 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. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | Let them bring in that polyptych of Enuma Anu Enlil which we wrote, (and) let the king, my lord, have a look. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | Also, let them give us the Akkadian tablet of the king; the stars, 3 of each, should be drawn therein after (its model). |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | An eunuch should be appointed to open the seal (and) to supervise the drawing. |
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 KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 2 | KA GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI{ki} | |
| 3 | a-na {mi₂}SIG₅ i-ha-sa-su | |
| 4 | hu-ud ŠA₃-bi ERIM-ni ŠA₃ LUGAL DUG₃-ab | |
| 5 | MAŠ₂.ANŠE KUR—URI{ki} par-ga-niš ina EDIN NA₂-iṣ | |
| 6 | 1 30 u 20 šit-qu-lu KUR i-kan | |
| 7 | at-mu-u₂ ki-nu ina KA UN-MEŠ GAR-an | |
| 8 | [LUGAL KUR] {giš}GU.ZA SUMUN-bar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {giš}LI.U₅.UM am-mi₃-u | |
| 2 | ša UD—AN—{d}EN.LIL₂ ša ni-iš-ṭur-u-ni | |
| 3 | lu-še-ri-bu-u-ni LUGAL be-li le-mur | |
| 4 | u₃ {giš}le-ʾu ak-ka-du-u | |
| 5 | ša LUGAL lid-di-nu-na-ši | |
| 6 | MUL-MEŠ 03-TA.AM₃ ina pu-u-ti | |
| 7 | ina ŠA₃-bi le-ṣi-ru | |
| 8 | {lu₂}SAG lip-qi-du ša un-qu i-bat-tu-ni | |
| 9 | ina IGI-šu₂ e-ṣi-ru-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)
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