RMA 229a (P336523)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 229a |
|---|---|
| ID | P336523 |
| 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 | If a planet in ... [......]. |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | If a planet in constellation [......] secondly, will die [......]. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If a planet in [......] rains [......]. |
| Obverse [5:6] o 66–o 66 | st[ar ......]. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | st[ar ......] good for [......] the moon on day [x ......]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From [......]. |
| Reverse [4:7] r 55–r 77 | In Kislev (IX), day [......] ... [......] Ṭabi[ja ...] Zakir [......]. |
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}UDU.IDIM ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | 1 {mul}UDU.IDIM ina {⸢mul⸣}[x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ša₂-ni-iš UŠ₂ [x x x x x x] | |
| 4 | 1 UDU.IDIM ina ⸢ŠA₃⸣ [x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | A.AN-MEŠ [x x x x x x x] | |
| 6 | {⸢mul⸣}[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {mul}[x x x x x x x x x] | |
| 2 | SIG₅ ša [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 3 | {d}30 UD [x x x x x x x x] | |
| 4 | ša {1}[x x x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ina {iti}GAN UD [x x x x x] | |
| 6 | GAN [x x x x x] | |
| 7 | {1}ṭa-bi-[ia x x x x] | |
| 8 | {1}za-kir [x x x x x] | |
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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