RMA 205 (P336506)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 205 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336506 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | Venus set in the east. |
| Obverse [1:4] o 22–o 44 | If Venus gets a flare: it is not good. This means she does not complete her days (of visibility) but sets. |
| Obverse [4:12] o 55– | If Venus disappears in the east in Nisan (I) from the 1st to the 30th day: there will be wailings in the land. "Wailings" are weepings. This is bad for Elam. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | From [Nabû]-mušeṣi. |
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 | {mul}dil-bat ina {d}UTU.E₃ {d}UTU.E₃ ir-ti-bi | |
| 2 | 1 {mul}dil-bat ṣir-ha TUK-ši NU SIG₅ | |
| 3 | ša UD-MEŠ-ša₂ la u₂-šal-li-mu-ma | |
| 4 | ir-bu-u₂ | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}dil-bat ina {iti}BARAG | |
| 6 | TA@v UD 01-KAM₂ EN UD 30-KAM₂ | |
| 7 | ina {d}UTU.E₃ {d}UTU.E₃ it-bal | |
| 8 | u₂-ru-ba-a-ti | |
| 9 | ina KUR GAL₂-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | u₂-ru-ba-a-ti bi-ka-a-ti | |
| 2 | HUL ša {kur}NIM.MA{ki} šu-u₂ | |
| 3 | ša {1}{d}[PA]—mu-še-ṣi | |
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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