RMA 274b (P336573)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 274b |
|---|---|
| ID | P336573 |
| 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 [0:4] o 1o 1–o 44 | [Mannu-k]i-Harran [wrote me] today: "The sun was [eclips]ed on the 29th; [what day do you have] today? We have [the ...th] |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | [...] We reject this [date ......]. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | The messenger who went to Marduk-[...] came (back and) reported: "We did not see the moon, there were clouds." |
| Reverse [3:4] r 44–r 44 | They did not see, we did not see; (consequently) we do not reject [the (30th) day]. |
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}man-nu—ki]-i—{uru}KASKAL ina UD-me an-ni-i | |
| 2 | [is-sap-ra] ma-a UD 29-KAM₂ {d}ša₂-maš | |
| 3 | [AN.MI] i-sa-kan ma-a UD-mu an-ni-[u] | |
| 4 | [mi₃-i-nu tu-kal-la UD x-KAM₂] nu-ka-a-la | |
| 5 | [x x x x x UD-mu] an-ni-u nu-tar-ra | |
| 6 | [x x x x x x x x] ri [x x x] | |
| 9 | [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ man ni [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [o] {lu₂}DUMU—šip-ri {lu₂}DUMU—šip-ri ša ina UGU {1}{d}AMAR.UTU—[x x] | |
| 2 | il-lik-u-ni it-tal-ka iq-ṭi-bi-[a] | |
| 3 | ma-a {d}30 la ne₂-mu-ur ma-a IM.DIRI šu-u | |
| 4 | šu-nu la e-mu-ru a-ni-nu la ne₂-e-mur-ma | |
| 5 | [x x x x] ⸢la⸣-a-šu₂ la-a nu-tar-ra | |
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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