RMA 217 (P336518)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 217 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336518 |
| 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 | Mercury became visible in the east. |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | If a planet becomes visible at the beginning of a month: rain and f[lood]. |
| Obverse [3:6] o 44–o 66 | If a planet becomes visible either [in] Iyyar (II) or in Sivan (III): the flood will come and irrigate the fields. |
| Obverse [6:9] o 77–o 99 | If a planet stands in the east: attack of Subartu and the Kassites against the land. |
| Reverse [0:6] r 1r 1–r 66 | This is the time for work. I shall go to Nineveh and station the scribes for writing in the [...] pa[lace]. I shall do whatever the k[ing my lo]rd s[ays] in the center of Nineveh. |
| Reverse [6:8] r 77–r 88 | Maybe they won't let me to enter; let them give me a sealed order. |
| Reverse [8:9] r 99–r 99 | 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 | {d}GUD.UD ina {d}UTU.E₃ {d}UTU.E₃ IGI | |
| 2 | 1 {d}UDU.IDIM ITI IGI.LAL | |
| 3 | A.AN u A.[KAL] | |
| 4 | 1 {d}UDU.IDIM šum-ma [ina] {iti}GUD | |
| 5 | šum-ma ina {iti}SIG₄ IGI.LAL | |
| 6 | A.KAL DU-ma A.ŠA₃ A.QAR i-ma-kir | |
| 7 | 1 {d}UDU.IDIM ina {im}KUR.RA GUB | |
| 8 | ZI-ut SU.BIR₄{ki} | |
| 9 | u₃ kaš-ši-i ana KUR | |
| r | ||
| 1 | si-mi₃-in dul-li šu-u | |
| 2 | a-na {uru}NINA la-al-lik | |
| 3 | {lu₂}A.BA-MEŠ a-na ša₂-ṭa-ri | |
| 4 | ina E₂.[GAL x x] ⸢lu⸣-u-ša₂-⸢x x⸣ | |
| 5 | mi-i-nu ša ⸢LUGAL⸣ [be]-li₂ i-[qab-bu-u-ni] | |
| 6 | ina qab-si {uru}NINA le-e-pu-uš | |
| 7 | is—su-ri la u₂-ša₂-ru-ni la e-rab | |
| 8 | un-qu li-di-nu-ni | |
| 9 | 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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