RMA 178 (P336486)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 178 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336486 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1– | [If] the sun rises and go[es] forward: the king of the world will make his reign lo[ng]. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 33–o 55 | If in Adar (XII) the sun is surrounded by a halo in the morning: in this month the flood will come; variant: it will rain. |
| Obverse [6:12] o 66– | This is in a sign from Jupiter; the rest of the words are like its sign, and concern rain and flood. |
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 {d}ša₂-maš KUR-ma ana IGI-šu₂ ⸢DU⸣ | |
| ip-pu-ha-am-ma pa-ni-šu₂ | ||
| 2 | LUGAL kiš-ša₂-ti BALA-šu₂ GID₂.[DA] | |
| 3 | 1 ina {iti}a-da-ri {d}ša₂-maš ina še-rim | |
| 4 | TUR₃ NIGIN ina ITI BI | |
| 5 | A.KAL DU-kam KI.MIN AN-u₂ ŠUR-nun | |
| 6 | ina ŠA₃ it-ti ša {mul}SAG.ME.GAR | |
| 7 | šu-u₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | re-eh-ti di-ib-bi | |
| 2 | ki-i it-ti-šu-ma | |
| 3 | a-na zu-un-ni a-na me-li | |
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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