RMA 274o (P336582)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 274o |
|---|---|
| ID | P336582 |
| 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 [1:2] o 2'2'–o 2'2' | [...]... As they were placed, the king [...] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 3'3'–o 3'3' | [...] ... before the sun had [...] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 4'4'–o 4'4' | [...] were alerted [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 5'5'–o 5'5' | I wro[te to] the king my lord |
| Obverse [5:6] o 6'6'–o 6'6' | [...] it will let the eclipse pass by [...] |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'1'–r 1'1' | From Balasî. |
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' | [x x x x x] a ⸢bi⸣ [x x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] x GIM GAR-ME LUGAL ⸢x⸣+[x x x] | |
| 3' | [x x x x x]-šu-ru a-di {d}UTU la i-[x x x] | |
| 4' | [x x x] a ⸢x⸣-si ut-tu-ku ⸢mu⸣-[x x x] | |
| 5' | [x x a-na] LUGAL EN-ia as-sa-⸢ap⸣-[ra] | |
| 6' | [x x x] AN.MI u₂-še-⸢taq⸣ [x x x] | |
| r | ||
| 1' | ša {1}ba-la-si-[i] | |
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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