RMA 274i (P336578)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 274i |
|---|---|
| ID | P336578 |
| 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 the moon] becomes visible [on the 1st day: reliable speech]; the land will become happy. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 33–o 44 | [If the day rea]ches its normal length: [a reign] of lon[g days]. |
| Obverse [4:6] o 55–o 66 | — [The (normal) length] of the month (means) it will complete [the 30th day]. |
| Reverse [0:4] r 1r 1–r 44 | [Concerning] the observation of the moon [......]. ... it will let [an eclipse] pass by, it will [not] make it. |
| Reverse [4:5] r 55–r 55 | [From Ba]lasî. |
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 30 UD 01-⸢KAM⸣ IGI | |
| 2 | [KA GI.NA] ŠA₃ KUR DUG₃-ab | |
| 3 | 1 UD ana mi]-na-ti-šu₂ ⸢GID₂⸣.DA | |
| 4 | [BALA UD-MEŠ] GID₂.[DA]-MEŠ | |
| 5 | [mi-na-at] ITI | |
| 6 | [UD 30-KAM₂] u₂-šal-lam-ma | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ina UGU] EN.NUN ša₂ {d}30 | |
| 2 | [x x x]+⸢x⸣-ri ⸢x⸣ [x] šu₂ | |
| 3 | [AN.MI] u₂-⸢še-taq⸣ | |
| 4 | [la i]-šak-kan | |
| 5 | [ša {1}ba]-la-si-i | |
Sources & licences
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- 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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