RMA 230 (P336525)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 230 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336525 |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | If the Bow star stands in the halo of the moon: men will rage, and there will be robbery in the land. |
| Obverse [3:8] o 44– | It does not portend evil; a halo (in the area) of Virgo portends rain and flood in winter. |
| Reverse [1:4] r 22–r 44 | On the 13th of Nisan (I) let him place his food offerings before Sin and Šamaš; Sin and Šamaš will speak to him. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | From Nabû-šuma-iškun. |
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}BAN ina TUR₃ 30 GUB | |
| 2 | GURUŠ-MEŠ in-na-da-ru-ma | |
| 3 | hu-ub-tum ina KUR GAL₂ | |
| 4 | a-na HUL ul i-lap-pat | |
| 5 | TUR₃ ša₂ {mul}AB.SIN₂ | |
| 6 | a-na A.AN u A.KAL | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ina EN.TE.NA i-lap-pat | |
| 2 | 1 ina {iti}BARAG UD 13-KAM | |
| 3 | PAD-HI.A-su ana 30 u {d}UTU | |
| 4 | liš-kun {d}30 u {d}UTU ŠUD₃-MEŠ-šu₂ | |
| 5 | ša₂ {1}{d}PA—MU—GAR-un | |
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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