RMA 259 (P336560)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 259 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336560 |
| 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 [0:7] o 1o 1– | If in Tishri (VII) Adad thunders, the day becomes cloudy, it rains, a rainbow stretches, lightning flashes: the gods will have mercy on the land. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | From the Chief Scribe. |
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}DU₆ {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB-di | |
| 2 | UD ŠU₂-up AN ŠUR-nun | |
| 3 | {d}TIR.AN.NA GIL | |
| 4 | NIM.GIR₂ ib-riq₂ | |
| 5 | DINGIR-MEŠ ana KUR | |
| 6 | ARHUŠ TUK-MEŠ | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ša {lu₂}GAL—DUB.SAR {lu₂}GAL—DUB.SAR | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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