SAA 08, 229 (P336669)
Astrological Report, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | SAA 08, 229 |
|---|---|
| ID | P336669 |
| 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 [0:1] o 1o 1–o 1o 1 | If the moon at its appearance [......] |
| Obverse [1:2] o 22–o 22 | from the 6th day [......] |
| Obverse [2:3] o 33–o 33 | from the 11th day [......] |
| Obverse [3:4] o 44–o 44 | the moon (and) the [sun ......] |
| Obverse [4:5] o 55–o 55 | The sun [......] |
| Obverse [6:8] o 77–o 88 | The star of [......] in [......] |
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 ina IGI.DU₈.⸢A⸣-[šu₂ x x x x] | |
| 2 | TA UD 06-KAM [x x x x x] | |
| 3 | TA UD 11-KAM [x x x x x] | |
| 4 | {d}30 {d}[UTU x x x x] | |
| 5 | {d}20 ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 6 | BARAG ina ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| 7 | MUL {d}[x x x x x] | |
| 8 | ina ⸢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)
- 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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