RMA 181b (P336489)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 181b |
|---|---|
| ID | P336489 |
| 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 [0:9] o 1o 1– | [If] a comet [becomes visible in the path of the stars of] Anu: [fall of Elam. Its] people [......] will be confused [......] city with city [......] brother will kill brother [......] the king of Elam [......] his days are near (to their end). |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | If the sun rises in a cloudbank: 3,20 will become furious and raise weapons. [3,20 means "king."] |
| Reverse [4:8] r 55– | [Ju]piter remained ste[ady in] the sky for a month of da[ys]. May [the king of a]ll lands be everla[sting]! |
| Right [0:1] r.e. 8r.e. 8–r.e. 8r.e. 8 | [From Ašaredu]. |
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 ṣal-lum-mu-[u ina KASKAL šu-ut] | |
| 2 | [o] {d}a-num [IGI ŠUB-tim NIM.MA{ki]} | |
| 3 | UN-MEŠ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 4 | SUH₃-MEŠ [x x x x x] | |
| 5 | URU KI ⸢URU⸣ [x x x x] | |
| 6 | ŠEŠ ŠEŠ ⸢GAZ⸣ [x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | LUGAL NIM.MA{⸢ki⸣} [x x x] | |
| 2 | UD-MEŠ-šu₂ qer-⸢bu⸣ | |
| 3 | 1 20 ina ni-du KUR-ha 3.20 ŠUR₂-[ma] | |
| 4 | {giš}TUKUL IL₂-ši 3.20 LUGAL] | |
| 5 | {[mul]}SAG.ME.GAR ITI UD-[MEŠ] | |
| 6 | [i-na] ⸢AN-e⸣ ik-tu-[un-ma] | |
| 7 | [LUGAL] ⸢KUR⸣.KUR lu da-[ri] | |
| r.e. | ||
| 8 | [ša {1}a-ša₂-ri-du] | |
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
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