SAA 08 007. Evening Last of Mars at Month’s End (RMA 021) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336378

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(1) If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day: reliable speech, the land will become happy. (3) If the day reaches its normal length: a reign of long days. (5) Twice or thrice we watched for Mars today (but) we did not see (it), it has set. Maybe the king my lord will say as follows: "Is there any (ominous) sign in (the fact) that it set?" (I answer): "There is not." (r 5) From Issar-šumu-ereš.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

1 30 UD 01-KAM IGI.LAL / KA GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG.GA / 1 UD-mu a-na mi-na-ti-šú e-ri-ik / BALA UD-MEŠ GÍD-MEŠ / dṣal-bat-a-nu :. 02-ú 03-šú / ina UD-me an-ni-i ni-ta-ṣar / la né-e-mur / ir-te-bi / is—su-ri LUGAL be-li i-qab-bi / ma-a GISKIM-šú-ú me-me-ni i-ba-ši / ša ir-bu-u-ni / la-áš-šú / ša m15—MU—KAM

Scholarly note

Astrological report from a court scholar to an Assyrian king, edited by Hermann Hunger (SAA 8, 1992). Celestial and meteorological observation correlated with omens. ORACC text P336378.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336378). source
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336378/.

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