RMA 157a (P336472)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 157a |
|---|---|
| ID | P336472 |
| 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 [0:3] 11–33 | If [on the 15th day the moon and sun are seen together: a strong enemy will raise his weapons against the land; the enemy will tear down my city] gate. |
| Obverse [3:5] 44–55 | If the moon [does not wait] for the sun [but sets]: raging of li[ons and wolves]. |
| Obverse [5:7] 66– | From [NN]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 [UD 15-KAM₂ 30 u 20 KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ] | |
| 2 | {⸢lu₂⸣}[KUR₂ dan-nu {giš}TUKUL-MEŠ-šu₂ ana KUR IL₂-a] | |
| 3 | KA₂.⸢GAL⸣ [URU-MU {lu₂}KUR₂ ina-qar] | |
| 4 | 1 30 u 20 [la u₂-qi₂-ma ir-bi] | |
| 5 | na-an-dur UR.⸢MAH⸣-[MEŠ u UR.BAR.RA-MEŠ] | |
| 6 | ša {1}{d}[x x x] |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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