RMA 262 (P336562)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 262 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336562 |
| 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 Adad thun[ders] on the day of disappearance of the moon: the harvest will prosper; business [will be steady]. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | If Adad thunders on the day of disappearance of the moon: good for the harvest. |
| Obverse [4:8] o 55–o 88 | If Adad thunders in Adar (XII), the day becomes cloudy, it rains, lightning flas[hes]: much flooding [will come, and] the harvest [of the land will prosper]. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | Fr[om NN]. |
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 UD.NA₂.AM₃ UD.NA₂.AM₃ {d}IM GU₃-⸢šu₂⸣ [ŠUB-di] | |
| 2 | BURU₁₄ SI.SA₂ KI.LAM [GI.NA] | |
| 3 | 1 ina UD.NA₂.AM₃ UD.NA₂.AM₃ {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB-[di] | |
| 4 | SIG₅ BURU₁₄ | |
| 5 | 1 ina {iti}ŠE {d}IM GU₃-šu₂ ŠUB-di | |
| 6 | UD ŠU₂ AN ŠUR NIM.GIR₂ ib-[riq] | |
| 7 | A.KAL ma-aʾ-⸢du⸣ [DU]-⸢kam⸣-[ma] | |
| 8 | BURU₁₄ [KUR SI.SA₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ⸢ša⸣ {1}x x x x x] | |
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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