RMA 277t (P336593)
Divination, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | RMA 277t |
|---|---|
| ID | P336593 |
| 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 1'1'–o 2'2' | [......] ... [......] will rise. |
| Obverse [2:4] o 3'3'–o 4'4' | [...... at its appea]rance haze [......] ...... |
| Obverse [4:7] o 5'5'–o 7'7' | [If ...] head of Scorpius [......] ... business will ...; [......] will stand. |
| Reverse [0:3] r 1r 1–r 33 | [...] his profit will become less; [...] of the head of Scorpius [......] its [sign] portends diminishing of business. |
| Reverse [3:7] r 44–r 77 | [... Ni]san (I) to the king my lord [...] Mercury as follows: the harvest will be good [......] Adad will devastate [......] ... |
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] a [x x x x] | |
| 2' | [x x x] ⸢i⸣-te-eb-ba-a | |
| 3' | [x x x ina IGI].LAL-šu₂ hi-il-lu | |
| 4' | [x x x x] AN šu₂ ma | |
| 5' | 1 x x] ⸢re⸣-eš {mul}GIR₂.TAB | |
| 6' | [x x x]+⸢x⸣ KI.LAM ⸢x⸣+[x] | |
| 7' | [x x x x] i-za-za | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [x x ne]-mi₃-il-šu₂ i-ma-aṭ-ṭi | |
| 2 | [x x x] ša SAG.DU {mul}GIR₂.TAB | |
| 3 | [x x GISKIM]-šu₂ a-na ṣe-he-er ma-hi-ri | |
| 4 | [x x {iti]}⸢BARAG⸣ a-na LUGAL EN-ia | |
| 5 | [x x {mul}UDU].IDIM.GUD.UD ma-a BURU₁₄ ⸢SIG₅⸣ | |
| 6 | [x x x {d]}IM RA-[iṣ] | |
| 7 | [x x 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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