RMA 244d (P336541)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 244d |
|---|---|
| ID | P336541 |
| 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 | [...] reached Aries. |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | [If ......] is faint, [......] will experience sorrow. |
| Obverse [2:7] o 33– | [This word] is not [in the Series], it is extraneous. [When ......] is faint [......], it will be cited. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | [If] the red [planet] is bright: your [hand] will catch [...]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | [If in Tammuz (IV) Adad th]unders: the harvest of the land will prosper. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | [If Mars becomes visible in Tammuz (IV)]: the cemetery of warriors will enlarge. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [From Nab]û-mušeṣi. |
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 | {[mul}x x x] {mul}{lu₂}HUN.GA₂ ik-ta-šad | |
| 2 | 1 {mul}x x x x] un-nu-ut | |
| 3 | [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ i-dir-tu₂ IGI.LAL | |
| 4 | [x x x x x x] la-aš₂-šu₂ a-hi-u₂ šu-u₂ | |
| 5 | [ki-i x x x x] un-nu-tu₂-ni | |
| 6 | [x x x x x]-u-ni i-na-sa-ha | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 {mul}UDU.IDIM] SA₅ ba-il | |
| 2 | [x x x ŠU.2-⸢ka⸣ i-ka-aš₂-ša₂-ad | |
| 3 | 1 ina {iti}ŠU {d}IM] ⸢GU₃⸣-šu₂ ŠUB BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SA₂ | |
| 4 | 1 ina {iti}ŠU {d}ṣal-bat-a-nu IGI] ⸢KI⸣.NA₂ qu-ra-di DAGAL-iš | |
| 5 | [ša {1}{d]}⸢PA⸣—mu-še-ṣi | |
Sources & licences
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