SAA 08, 122 (P336658)
Astrological Report, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 08, 122 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336658 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Astrological Report |
| 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 [0:3] o 1o 1–o 33 | [If the moon and sun are in bal]ance: the land will become stable; [reliable speech] will be placed [in] the mouth of people; [the king of the land] will make (his) throne last long. |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | [If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the l]and will [widen his under]standing. |
| Reverse [0:1] r 1r 1–r 1r 1 | [From Bu]lluṭu. |
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 u 20 šit]-⸢qu⸣-lu KUR i-ka-na | |
| 2 | [at-mu-u ke-e-nu ina] KA UN-MEŠ GAR-⸢an⸣ | |
| 3 | [LUGAL KUR {giš]}GU.ZA SUMUN-⸢bar⸣ | |
| 4 | 1 30 u 20 šu-ta-tu-u LUGAL] ⸢KUR⸣ uz-[nu u₂-rap-pa-aš₂] | |
| r | ||
| 1 | [ša {1}bu]-⸢ul⸣-lu-ṭi | |
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)
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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