RMA 255 (P336553)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 255 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336553 |
| 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 shouts on the day of disappearance of the moon: the harvest will pros[per]; business will be steady. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If it rains on the day of disappearance of the moon: ple[nty] for the people. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55– | If Adad thunders on the day [of disappearance of the moon]: there will be darkness in the land. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 11–r 11 | From Issar-šumu-ereš. |
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 is-si | |
| 2 | BURU₁₄ SI.[SA₂] KI.LAM GI.NA | |
| 3 | 1 ina UD.NA₂.AM₃ UD.NA₂.AM₃ A.AN ŠUR-nun | |
| 4 | nu-[huš] UN-MEŠ | |
| 5 | 1 ina UD.[NA₂.AM₃] UD.[NA₂.AM₃] {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB | |
| 6 | da-ʾu-um-ma-tu₂ ina KUR GAL₂-ši | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša {1}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
Sources & licences
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