RMA 256b (P336556)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 256b |
|---|---|
| ID | P336556 |
| 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 33 | [If] Adad th[unders in] Ab (V) [and the day] becomes cloudy, it [rains: the harvest] of the land will not prosper [...]. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If Adad [shouts] on a day without clouds: there will [be] famine [in the land]. |
| Obverse [5:7] o 66–o 77 | If light[ning] flashes on a day without clouds: Adad will devast[ate]. |
| Obverse [7:10] o 88–o 1010 | "A day without clouds" (means) Ab (V). "Adad will [devasta]te", as it says, (means) [...]. "[Adad will de]vastate" portends hot wea[ther]. |
| Reverse [0:2] r 1r 1–r 22 | If a storm rises from the south: fall of the Westl[and]. |
| Reverse [2:4] r 33–r 44 | [If M]ar[s stands] in Cancer: [...] will hold [...] ...... |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | From Bal[asî]. |
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] {⸢iti⸣}NE {d}IM ⸢GU₃⸣-[šu₂ ŠUB-ma] | |
| 2 | [UD-mu] i-ru-up ša₂-[mu-u ŠUR-nun] | |
| 3 | [BURU₁₄] KUR NU SI.SA₂ [x x x] | |
| 4 | 1 ina UD la er-pi {[d]}IM [is-si] | |
| 5 | SU.KU₂ [ina KUR] GAL₂-[ši] | |
| 6 | 1 ina UD la er-⸢pi⸣ NIM.GIR₂ ib-⸢ri⸣-[iq] | |
| 7 | {d}IM RA-[iṣ] | |
| 8 | UD-mu la ⸢er⸣-pu {iti}⸢NE⸣ | |
| 9 | {d}⸢IM⸣ [RA]-iṣ ša₂ iq-bu-u-ni [x x] | |
| 10 | {d}[IM] ⸢RA⸣-iṣ a-na ṣu-ur-[hi] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | 1 me-hi-[i] {⸢im⸣}U₁₈.LU it-[bi] | |
| 2 | ŠUB-tim KUR—⸢MAR⸣.[TU] | |
| 3 | 1 {⸢mul⸣}ṣal-bat-[a-nu] ina ŠA₃ {mul}AL.⸢LUL⸣ [GUB] | |
| 4 | [x x]-šu₂ u₂-kal ⸢x⸣+[x x]+⸢x⸣-ub-tu₂ | |
| 5 | ša {1}ba-⸢la⸣-[si-i] | |
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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