RMA 204 (P336505)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 204 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336505 |
| 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 Venus disappears in the east in Nisan (I) from the 1st to the 30th day: there will be wailings in the land. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | If Venus keeps, variant: kept, changing her po[sition] ...: campaigns of the enemy, falsehood, variant: ... |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77– | [......] ... [......] his god will [...]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [If Venus] descends darkly to the horizon and sets: there will be a fall of Elam. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From Nabû-ahhe-[eriba]. |
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 {mul}dil-⸢bat⸣ ina {iti}BARAG TA@v UD 01-⸢KAM₂\t⸣ | |
| 2 | a-di UD 30-KAM₂\t ina {d}UTU.E₃ {d}UTU.E₃ it-⸢bal⸣ | |
| 3 | u₂-ru-ba-a-ti ina KUR GAL₂-MEŠ-a | |
| 4 | 1 {mul}dil-bat ⸢KI⸣.[GUB]-sa₃ ut-ta-nak-kar | |
| 5 | KI.MIN ut-ta-⸢kir⸣ x ger-ret {lu₂}KUR₂ | |
| 6 | ṣar-ra-a-ti KI.MIN bi-ra-a-ti | |
| 7 | [x x x x] u₂ ma [x x x x x] | |
| 8 | [x x x x] DINGIR-šu₂ u₂-da-[x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}dil-bat] ad-riš uš-tak-ti-⸢it⸣-ma ⸢ir-bi⸣ | |
| 2 | ⸢ŠUB⸣-tim NIM.MA{ki} GAL₂-ši | |
| 3 | ša {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—[SU] | |
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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