RMA 207 (P336509)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 207 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336509 |
| 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] o 1o 1–o 22 | Venus became visible in the west in the path of the Enlil stars. This is its interpretation: |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | If Venus becomes visible in Sivan (III): fall of the enemy. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If Venus becomes visible in the path of the Enlil stars: the king of Akkad will have no rival. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | Until the 5th or 6th day she will reach Cancer. This is its interpretation: |
| Reverse [0:7] r 1r 1–r 77 | [If] the Goat star comes close to Cancer: there will be reconciliation and peace in the land; the gods will have mercy on the land; empty storage bins will become full; the harvest of the land will prosper; there will be recoveries from illness in the land; pregnant women will carry their babies full term; the great gods will abandon the sanctuaries of the land; the temples of the great gods will be restored. The Goat star is (equivalent to) Venus. |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | From Šumaya. |
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 | {d}dil-bat ina {d}UTU.ŠU₂.A ina KASKAL šu-ut {d}EN.LIL₂ IGI-mar | |
| 2 | an-ni-u₂ pi-še-er-šu | |
| 3 | 1 {d}dil-bat ina {iti}SIG₄ IGI-ir ŠUB-tim {lu₂}KUR₂ | |
| 4 | 1 {d}dil-bat ina KASKAL šu-ut {d}EN.LIL₂ IGI-ir | |
| 5 | LUGAL URI{ki} GABA.RI NU TUK-ši | |
| 6 | a-du UD-MEŠ 05 06 {mul}AL.LUL i-kaš-ša₂-ad | |
| 7 | an-ni-u₂ pi-še-er-šu | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}UZ₃ a-na {mul}AL.LUL TE-hi | |
| 2 | taš-mu-u₂ u sa-li-mu ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 3 | DINGIR-MEŠ ana KUR ARHUŠ TUK-MEŠ iš-pik-ki ri-qu-te | |
| 4 | i-ma-al-lu-u BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ GIG AN.TI.LA | |
| 5 | ina KUR GAL₂-MEŠ {mi₂}PEŠ₄-MEŠ ša₃—ŠA₃-ši-na u₂-šak-la-la | |
| 6 | DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ aš₂-rat KUR uš-ša₂-ru E₂-MEŠ DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ | |
| 7 | u₂-ta-ad-da-ša₂ {mul}UZ₃ {d}dil-bat | |
| 8 | ša {1}šu-ma-a.a | |
Sources & licences
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