RMA 238 (P336536)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 238 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336536 |
| 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 22 | If the Yoke star is low and dark when it comes out: [the land] will go to ruin. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 44–o 66 | [The Yoke st]ar (means) Mercury; [it] is faint (and) [...] are scarce. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1– | [If] the Fish star stands close to the Raven star: fish (and) birds will become abundant. |
| Reverse [4:6] r 33–r 44 | — Mercury becomes visible in Capricorn. |
| Reverse [6:7] r 55–r 55 | From Nabû-ahhe-eriba. |
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}ŠUDUN ina E₃-šu₂ [o] | |
| šu-du-un a-ṣi-šu₂ | ||
| 2 | [šu]-up-pu-ul-ma da-ʾi-im | |
| 3 | [KUR] ar₂-bu-tu₂ il-la-ka | |
| 4 | {[mul]}⸢ŠUDUN⸣ {mul}UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD | |
| 5 | [x x]+⸢x⸣ un-nu-ut | |
| 6 | [x x] e-ṣu [o] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul]}KU₆ ana {mul}⸢UGA⸣ | |
| [ku]-u mu-ul u₂-ga | ||
| 2 | [i]-mid KU₆-MEŠ MUŠEN-MEŠ u₂-deš-šu-u | |
| [x x]+⸢x⸣ iṣ-ṣu-ri | ||
| 3 | {mul}UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD ina ŠA₃ {mul}SUHUR.MAŠ₂ | |
| 4 | in-na-mar-ma | |
| 5 | ša₂ {1}{d}PA—PAB-MEŠ—SU | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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