RMA 166 (P336478)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 166 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336478 |
| 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 16th day the moon and sun are seen together: one king will send hostile messages to another king; the king will be shut up in his palace for the length of a month; the step of the enemy (will be set) towards his land; the enemy will keep marching victoriously through his land. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 66– | If the moon in Tammuz (IV) is not seen together with the sun, neither on the 14th nor on the 15th day: the king will be shut up in his palace. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | (The moon) was seen on the 16th day; good for Assyria, bad for Akkad and the Westland. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | 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 UD 16-KAM₂\t 30 u 20 KI a-ha-meš IGI-MEŠ | |
| 2 | LUGAL ana LUGAL {mi₂}KUR₂ KIN-ar₂ | |
| 3 | LUGAL ina E₂.GAL-šu₂ a-na mi-na-at ar-hi | |
| 4 | u₂-ta-sar GIR₃.2 KUR₂ a-na KUR-šu₂ <GAR-an> | |
| 5 | {lu₂}KUR₂ ina KUR-šu₂ šal-ṭa-niš DU-MEŠ | |
| 6 | 1 30 ina {iti}ŠU lu-u UD 14-KAM₂\t lu-u UD 15-KAM₂\t | |
| 7 | KI {d}UTU NU IGI-ir | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL ina E₂.GAL-šu₂ u₂-ta-sar | |
| 2 | UD 16-KAM₂\t IGI.LAL-ma SIG₅ {kur}SU.BIR₄{ki} | |
| 3 | HUL KUR—URI{ki} u KUR—MAR.TU | |
| 4 | ša {1}ak-kul-la-ni | |
Sources & licences
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