RMA 196a (P336500)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 196a |
|---|---|
| ID | P336500 |
| 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] 11–22 | [If ......: ......] the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| Obverse [2:4] 33–44 | [If Jupiter] becomes visible in Tishri (VII): [enemy kings] will receive peace. |
| Obverse [4:6] 55–66 | [If Jupiter] becomes steady in the morning: [enemy kings] will make peace. |
| Obverse [6:9] 77– | [— "Morning"] means "to be bright," it carries [rad]iance. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ | |
| 2 | [x x x x]+⸢x⸣ BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 3 | 1 {mul}SAG.ME.GAR ina {iti]}DU₆ IGI-ir | |
| 4 | [LUGAL-MEŠ KUR₂-MEŠ] ⸢SILIM⸣-mu TUK-MEŠ | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}SAG.ME.GAR ina še]-er-ti ik-tu-un | |
| 6 | [LUGAL-ME KUR₂-ME] SILIM-mu | |
| 7 | [še-e-ru] na-mar-ma | |
| 8 | [ŠE].⸢ER⸣.ZI IL₂-ma |
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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