RMA 256a (P336555)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 256a |
|---|---|
| ID | P336555 |
| 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 | [If the moon] becomes visible [on the 1st day: reliable] speech; [the land will become happy]. |
| Obverse [1:3] o 22–o 33 | [If the day] reaches its normal le[ngth]: a reign of lo[ng] days. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | This (refers to) the visibility of the 1st day. |
| Obverse [4:7] o 55–o 77 | If Adad thunders at the gate of the moon: there will be a fall of the army of Elam in battle; the possessions of its land will be collected into another land. |
| Obverse [7:9] o 88–o 99 | This (refers to) that Adad thunders when the moon is seen. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | From Bulluṭu. |
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 30 UD 01-KAM₂ IGI KA [GI.NA ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃.GA] | |
| 2 | 1 UD] a-na ŠID-MEŠ-šu₂ ⸢GID₂⸣.[DA] | |
| 3 | ⸢BALA⸣ UD-MEŠ GID₂.⸢DA⸣-[MEŠ] | |
| 4 | an-ni-u₂ ta-mar-tu₂ ša UD 01-[KAM₂] | |
| 5 | 1 {d}IM ina KA₂.GAL 30 GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB-di | |
| 6 | ŠUB-tim ERIM NIM.MA{ki} ina {giš}TUKUL GAL₂-ši | |
| 7 | NIG₂.ŠU KUR-šu₂ ana KUR ša₂-ni-ti-im-ma NIGIN-har | |
| 8 | an-ni-u₂ ša₂ ki-i 30 in-na-mar-u-ni | |
| 9 | {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ i-na-du-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša {1}bu-lu-ṭu | |
Sources & licences
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