RMA 229b (P336524)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 229b |
|---|---|
| ID | P336524 |
| 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 | [If a strange star] comes close to a planet: [......] cattle of the land will perish. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | [If a strange star] comes close to it: the cattle of the land will perish; [......] will prosper. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1'1'–r 3'3' | [......] ... [...] Saturn; i.e. [Mar]s comes close to Saturn. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | [From] Bulluṭu. |
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}MIN₃-ma ana {mul]}UDU.IDIM TE-[hi] | |
| 2 | [x x x x] ⸢bu⸣-lim KUR ZAH₂ | |
| 3 | 1 x x x x] TE-šu₂ MAŠ₂.ANŠE KUR ZAH₂ | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x x x⸣ SI.SA₂ | |
| r | ||
| 1' | [x x x x x x x x x] ⸢x x⸣ | |
| 2' | [x x] {mul}UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ | |
| 3' | {[d}ṣal-bat]-⸢a⸣-nu ana {mul}UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ TE-ma | |
| 4' | [ša] {1}bu-ul-lu-ṭi | |
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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