RMA 254 (P336552)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 254 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336552 |
| 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 [0:2] o 1o 1–o 22 | If [Adad thunders] on the day of disappearance of the moon: the irrigated field [...]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If it ra[ins] on the day of disappearance of the moon: business will be stable; the irrigated fie[ld will prosper]. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | (If) Adad th[unders] in the middle of the sun: there will be mercy in the land. |
| Obverse [6:10] o 77– | In the middle of the sun, as it says, (means) at sunrise, before the rising of the sun, Adad [uttered] his lament. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 33–r 33 | In the morning he said ... |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | From Balasî. |
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 ina UD.NA₂.AM₃ UD.NA₂.AM₃ {d}[IM GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB] | |
| 2 | ru-ṭi-ib-tu₂ [x x x] | |
| 3 | 1 ina UD.NA₂.AM₃ UD.NA₂.AM₃ ša₂-mu-u [ŠUR-nun] | |
| 4 | KI.LAM GI.NA ru-ṭi-ib-[tu₂ SI.SA₂] | |
| 5 | 1 {d}IM ina MURUB₄ {d}UTU GU₃-[šu₂ ŠUB-di] | |
| 6 | re-e-mu ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| 7 | ina MURUB₄ {d}UTU ša₂ iq-bu-u | |
| r | ||
| 1 | {d}UTU ina na-pa-hi-šu₂ {d}IM | |
| 2 | ina pu-ut {d}UTU na-pa-hi ik-KAL-šu₂ [ŠUB] | |
| 3 | ina še-e-ri ⸢x⸣ iq-ṭi-bi | |
| 4 | ša {1}ba-la-si-⸢x⸣ | |
Sources & licences
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