RMA 256c (P336557)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
Open in the reader & map →See it among all tablets
| Designation | RMA 256c |
|---|---|
| ID | P336557 |
| 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 in Ab (V) Adad th[unders: there will be] famine in the [land]. |
| Obverse [2:6] o 33– | If in Ab (V) Adad [thunders], the day becomes cloudy, it rains, lightning flashes: water will decrease at the source. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 11–r 11 | From Urad-[Ea]. |
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-di] | |
| 2 | ub-bu-ṭu ina [KUR GAL₂-ši] | |
| 3 | 1 ina {iti}NE {d}IM [GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB-di] | |
| 4 | UD ŠU₂ AN ŠUR-nun NIM.GIR₂ ib-[riq₂] | |
| 5 | A-MEŠ ina IDIM LA₂-[MEŠ] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša {1}ARAD—{d}[E₂.A] | |
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)
Cite the original edition and translator. Page generated by Unread Atlas from the public corpus export of 2026-10-11.