RMA 169 (P336480)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 169 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336480 |
| 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] o 1o 1–o 33 | [If the m]oon in Tammuz (IV) is seen with the sun neither on the 14th nor on the 15th day: the king will be shut up in his palace. |
| Obverse [3:10] o 44– | If on the 16th day the moon and sun are seen toget[her]: one king will send hostile messages to another; the king will be shut up in [his palace for] a month's length; [the step of the en]emy will be s[et] towards his land; [the enemy will march] around victoriously in his land. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | The moon was seen on the 16th day, that is bad for Akkad, but good for Subartu. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | From Šumaya. |
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 ina {iti}ŠU lu UD 14-KAM₂\t lu UD 15-KAM₂\t | |
| 2 | it-ti {d}UTU NU IGI-ir | |
| 3 | LUGAL ina E₂.GAL-šu₂ u₂-ta-sar | |
| 4 | 1 UD 16-KAM₂\t 30 u 20 it-ti a-ha-[meš] | |
| 5 | in-nam-ru LUGAL ana LUGAL | |
| 6 | nu-kur₂-tum i-šap-par LUGAL ina [E₂.GAL-šu₂] | |
| 7 | [ana mi]-na-at ITI u₂-⸢ta⸣-[sar] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [GIR₃] ⸢KUR₂⸣ ana KUR-šu iš-⸢šak⸣-[ka-an] | |
| 2 | {[lu₂}KUR₂] ina KUR-šu šal-ṭa-niš it-⸢ta⸣-[na-lak] | |
| 3 | 30 UD 16-KAM₂\t IGI-ma HUL KUR—URI{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 4 | SIG₅ {kur}SU.BIR₄{⸢ki⸣} | |
| 5 | ša {1}šu-ma-a.a | |
Sources & licences
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