RMA 257 (P336558)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 257 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336558 |
| 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 in Ab (V) Adad thunders, the day is cloudy, it rains, lightning flashes: water will become scarce at the source. |
| Obverse [3:5] o 44–o 55 | If Adad shouts on a day without clouds: there will be darkness, variant: famine in the land. |
| Obverse [5:17] o 66– | The king my lord need not worry about this illness. This is a seasonal disease; all the people who were sick are well (now). Further, the king my lord who is one who reveres the gods and prays day and night to the gods — can really anything happen to the king my lord and his offspring? God disposes; and that is good. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | Somewhere it is said as follows: "He is doing very well — his days will be short; he keeps falling ill — his days will be long." |
| Reverse [7:8] r 88–r 88 | 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 {iti}NE {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB-ma | |
| 2 | UD ŠU₂ AN ŠUR-nun NIM.GIR₂ ib-riq₂ | |
| 3 | A-MEŠ ina IDIM LA₂-MEŠ | |
| 4 | 1 ina UD la er-pi₂ {d}IM is-si | |
| 5 | da-um-ma-tu KI.MIN SU.KU₂ ina KUR GAL₂ | |
| 6 | ina UGU la ṭu-ub UZU an-ni-i | |
| 7 | LUGAL be-li₂ TA@v ŠA₃-bi-šu₂ la i-da-bu-ub | |
| 8 | mur-ṣu MU.AN.NA šu-u₂ | |
| 9 | UN-MEŠ am—mar mar-ṣu-u-ni | |
| 10 | gab-bu šul-mu | |
| 11 | tu-ra-ma LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 12 | ša pa-lih₃ DINGIR-MEŠ šu-tu-u-ni | |
| 13 | UD-mu u₃ mu-šu₂ DINGIR-MEŠ u₂-ṣal-lu-u-ni | |
| r | ||
| 1 | kit-tu-u₂ me-me-ni | |
| 2 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia u₃ NUMUN-šu₂ il-la-ka | |
| 3 | i-lu-ut-tu a-šir-tu₂ | |
| 4 | de-e-i-qi i—ba-at-ti i—ba-at-ti | |
| 5 | šu-u₂ ki-i an-ni-i qa-a-bi | |
| 6 | ma-gal a-še-er UD-MEŠ-šu₂ LUGUD₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 7 | im-da-na-ra-aṣ UD-MEŠ-šu₂ GID₂.DA-MEŠ | |
| 8 | ša {1}{d}15—MU—KAM-eš | |
Sources & licences
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