RMA 206 (P336507)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 206 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336507 |
| 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 se[t] in the west. |
| Obverse [1:4] o 22–o 44 | If Venus in [Tebet (X)] from the 1st to the 30th day disappears in the west: the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | If Venus keeps a stable position: the days of the ruler will be long; there will be truth in the land. |
| Obverse [7:12] o 88– | If Venus moves in the path of Ea and sta[nds: the god]s will have peace for the Westland. |
| Reverse [1:3] r 22–r 33 | If the moon is surrounded by a halo and the Pleiades stand in it: in that year, women will give birth to male children. |
| Reverse [3:6] r 44–r 66 | If ditto, and the Old Man star s[tand]s in it: in that year, fall of peop[le]; it will not affect cattle and sheep. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 77–r 77 | From Issar-šumu-ereš. |
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}dil-bat ina {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A ir-[bi] | |
| 2 | 1 {mul}dil-bat ina {[iti}AB] | |
| 3 | TA@v UD 01-KAM₂ EN UD 30-KAM₂ | |
| 4 | ina {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A it-bal BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 5 | 1 {mul}dil-bat KI.GUB-sa₃ u₂-ki-in | |
| 6 | UD-MEŠ NUN GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 7 | kit-tum ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 8 | 1 {⸢mul⸣}dil-bat ina KASKAL šu-ut {d}E₂.A | |
| 9 | [ir]-di-ma ⸢GUB⸣ | |
| 10 | [DINGIR]-⸢MEŠ⸣ a-na KUR—MAR.TU{[ki]} | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢sa⸣-li-mu TUK-[MEŠ] | |
| 2 | 1 30 TUR₃ NIGIN₂-ma MUL.MUL ina ŠA₃-šu₂ GUB-MEŠ | |
| 3 | ina MU BI MI₂-MEŠ NITA-MEŠ U₃.TU-⸢MEŠ⸣ | |
| 4 | 1 MIN-ma {mul}ŠU.GI ina ŠA₃-šu₂ ⸢GUB-iz⸣ | |
| 5 | ina MU BI ŠUB-tim a-me-lu-[ti] | |
| 6 | a-na AB₂.GUD-HI.A U₈.UDU-HI.A NU TE | |
| 7 | ša {1}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
Sources & licences
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