Nisaba 2, pl. IV 3 (P399217)
CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | Nisaba 2, pl. IV 3 |
|---|---|
| ID | P399217 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Divination > Celestial; CANONICAL > Technical > Commentary |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
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| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Reverse [0:1] r 1'r 1'–r 1'r 1' | "Night to [...]" (Enūma Anu Enlil XIV Table (?)) |
| Reverse [1:2] r 2'2'–r 2'2' | means "night to night" [...]. |
| Reverse [2:3] r 3'3'–r 3'3' | "If the moon is early [and is eclipsed in the evening watch, the eclipse (concerns) the king of Akkad"]. |
| Reverse [3:4] r 4'4'–r 4'4' | Second tablet of [Sîn ina tāmartīšu, the mukallimtu-commentary on the series Enūma Anu Enlil.] |
| Reverse [4:5] r 5'5'–r 5'5' | [Written and collated] according to a writting board, [a Babylonian original.] |
| Reverse [5:6] r 6'6'–r 6'6' | Tablet of Nabû-zuqup-kēnu, [son of Marduk-šuma-iqīš, the scribe], |
| Reverse [6:7] r 7'7'–r 7'7' | descendant of Gabbi-ilāni-ēreš, [the chief scribe]. |
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) |
|---|---|---|
| r | ||
| 1' | GE₆ ana x⸣ [...] | |
| 2' | GE₆ ana ⸢GE₆⸣ [...] | |
| 3' | 30 TAB-ma ⸢ba⸣-[ra-ri it-ta-aʾ-dar AN.GE₆ LUGAL URI{ki]} | |
| 4' | DUB 2-KAM 30 [ina IGI.LA₂-šu₂ NIG₂.PA₃.DA U₄ AN {d}EN.LIL₂] | |
| 5' | ki-i pi {giš}le-⸢u₅⸣-[um GABA.RI KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} AB.SAR.AM₃ BA.AN.E₃] | |
| 6' | DUB {m}{d}AG-zu-qu-up-GI.NA [DUMU {m}{d}AMAR.UTU-MU-BA{ša₂} {lu₂}A.BA] | |
| 7' | ⸢ŠA₃.BAL.BAL⸣ {[m]}⸢gab⸣-[bi-DINGIR-MEŠ]-⸢ni⸣-KAM{eš} {[lu₂}GAL DUB.SAR-MEŠ] | |
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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