RMA 239 (P336537)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 239 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336537 |
| 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 [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | If the Plough star [comes close] to Scorp[ius]: the ruler [will die] by a sting of a scorpion; after him his son will no[t take] the throne; the mind of the land will change, the land [will get] another lord; the border of the land will not be stable; lamentation of th[e great gods over the land]. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66– | — Mars [came close] to [Scorpius]. |
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}APIN ana {mul}GIR₂.[TAB TE] | |
| 2 | NUN ina zi-qit GIR₂.TAB [BA.UŠ₂] | |
| 3 | EGIR-šu₂ DUMU-šu₂ AŠ.TE ⸢NU⸣ [DIB-bat] | |
| 4 | UMUŠ KUR MIN₃-ni KUR EN MIN₃-ma [TUK-ši] | |
| 5 | ku-dur₂ KUR NU GI.NA I.{d}UTU ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ GAL-MEŠ ana KUR] | |
| 6 | {⸢mul⸣}ṣal-bat-a-nu a-na {mul}[GIR₂.TAB TE-ma] | |
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