RMA 170 (P336481)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 170 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336481 |
| 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 1'1'–o 3'3' | If the moon in Shebat (XI) on the 14th or 15th day is not seen together with the sun: a massive flood will come and will make the harvest small. |
| Obverse [3:13] o 4'4'– | The wisest, merciful Bel, the warrior Marduk, became angry at night, but relented in the morning. You, o king of the world, are an image of Marduk; when you were angry with your servants, we suffered the anger of the king our lord; and we saw the reconciliation of the king. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | Why my relatives [......]. |
| Edge [0:1] e. 1e. 1–e. 1e. 1 | From Ašare[du] the older, [servant of the king]. |
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}ZIZ₂ UD 14-KAM₂ lu UD 15-KAM | |
| 2' | KI 20 NU IGI A.KAL gap-šu₂ DU-ma | |
| 3' | BURU₁₄ TUR-ar₂ | |
| 4' | ap-kal-lu IGI.GAL₂.LA | |
| 5' | {d}EN re-mi-nu-u₂ qar-rad {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 6' | ina MI i-zu-uz-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina še-e-ri it-tap-šar | |
| 2 | LUGAL ŠU₂ ṣa-lam {d}AMAR.UTU at-ta | |
| 3 | a-na ŠA₃-bi ARAD-MEŠ-ni-i-ka | |
| 4 | ki-i tar-ʾu-u₂-bu ru-ʾu-ub-ti | |
| 5 | ša₂ LUGAL EN-ni ni-il-ta-da-ad | |
| 6 | u su-lum-mu-u₂ ša₂ LUGAL ni-ta-mar | |
| 7 | am-me-ni am-me-ni {lu₂}ki-na-at-u₂-a | |
| e. | ||
| 1 | ša₂ {1}a-ša₂-ri-[du] | |
| 2 | IGI-u₂ [ARAD ša₂ LUGAL] | |
Sources & licences
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