K 05908 (P396249)
CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 05908 |
|---|---|
| ID | P396249 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By nn · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [2:3] 3'3'–3'3' | [...] Ea to all the gods [...], |
| Obverse [3:4] 4'4'–4'4' | [...] A.RÁ (means) "advice" (milku); ŠU (also means) "advice" (milku), ŠU (means) "instruction" (ṭēmu), [...] |
| Obverse [4:5] 5'5'–5'5' | [...] it goes, and it sets correctly, and it is not visible at night, [...] |
| Obverse [5:6] 6'6'–6'6' | [...] are seen. In uddazallû, udda means day, [...] |
| Obverse [6:7] 7'7'–7'7' | [If the moon is dark and like the] ṭēmu of the sky, its eclipse is very dark, [...] |
| Obverse [7:8] 8'8'–8'8' | [If the moon ...] and its top makes the sky dark, in the month of Duʾūzu (IV) there is an eclipse [...] |
| Obverse [8:9] 9'9'–9'9' | [If the moon ...] and its top makes the sky dark, in the month of Tašrītu (VII) there is an eclipse [...] |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| 1' | [...] ⸢x⸣-šu₂ ⸢a-na⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | [...] SI [...] | |
| 3' | [... {d]}e₂-a DU₃ DINGIR-MEŠ AD ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 4' | [...] A.RA₂ mil-ku ŠU mil-ku ŠU ṭe₃-e-mu [...] | |
| 5' | [...] ⸢DU⸣-ma ki-niš ŠU₂-ma ina GE₆ NU IGI{ir} ša ⸢MUL⸣ [...] | |
| 6' | [...] ⸢IGI⸣{ru} ud-da-zal-lu-u₂ UD.DA U₄{⸢mu⸣} [...] | |
| 7' | 30 a-dir-ma GIM ṭe₃]-⸢em⸣ AN{e} GAR AN.GE₆-šu₂ ma-diš GE₆ ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 8' | 30 ... qim-mat]-⸢su⸣ AN{e} dal-hat ina {iti}ŠU AN.GE₆ GAR-ma ⸢x⸣ [...] | |
| 9' | 30 ... qim-mat]-⸢su⸣ AN{e} dal-hat ina {iti}DU₆ AN.⸢GE₆⸣ [GAR-ma ...] | |
| 10' | [...] ⸢x x IGI.TAB 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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