RMA 246b (P336543)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 246b |
|---|---|
| ID | P336543 |
| 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 Swallow star [produces] a mišhu: attack of the troops [......]. |
| Obverse [5:9] o 44– | This night, [... came out] from [...] in its path in [......]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [This] is bad for [...]. |
| Reverse [1:2] r 22–r 22 | The moon [...] in front of [...] |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | of the halo in [......] |
| Reverse [3:5] r 44–r 55 | it did not close [......] in it. |
| Reverse [5:6] r 66–r 66 | 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}SIM.MAH [x x x x] | |
| mu-ul ši-im-ma-⸢ah⸣ | ||
| 2 | meš-ha [im-šu-uh] | |
| 3 | ZI-ut ERIM-ni [x x x x] | |
| ti-bu-ut um-ma-[ni] | ||
| 4 | mu-šu an-ni-u₂ {[mul}x x x] | |
| 5 | TA ŠA₃ {mul}[x x x uṣ-ṣa-a] | |
| 6 | ina KASKAL-šu₂ ina [x x x x] | |
| har-ra-ni-šu₂ | ||
| r | ||
| 1 | lum-nu ša₂ {kur}[x x x šu-u] | |
| 2 | {d}30 ina IGI [x x x x x] | |
| 3 | ša TUR₃ ina [x x x x] | |
| 4 | la ik-ṣur [x x x x x x] | |
| 5 | ina ŠA₃-bi [x x x] | |
| 6 | 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)
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