Position in chronology
SAA 08 008. Earthquakes in Adar and Nisan (RMA 264) [weather]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) Concerning the earthquake about which the king [my lo]rd wrote to me, this [is its interpretation]: (3) If the earth keeps [quaking]: attack of [an enemy]. (5) If the earth quakes at night: wo[rry for the land, variant: abandonment of the land]. (6) Because i[t quaked] on the 5th day (and) it happened to quake in the night o[f the 6th day], therefore I cit[ed] "the earth ke[pt quaking]" (omen). (r 1) If the earth quakes in Nisan (I): His land will [defect] from the ruler. (r 3) Had it not begun (in) Adar (XII), rai[n ...]; now [its] interpretation is this: because it quaked in Adar (XII)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
ina UGU ri-i-bi ša LUGAL ⸢be⸣-[lí] / iš-pur-an-ni an-ni-u [pi-šìr-šú] / 1 KI.TIM ú-sa-dir-ma [i-nu-uš] / ZI-ib [LÚ.KÚR] / 1 KI.TIM ina MI BUL-uš na-[zaq KUR KI.MIN ŠUB-e KUR] / ina UGU ša UD 05-KÁM i-[ru-ub-u-ni] / il-lik-an-ni MI ⸢ša⸣ [UD 06-KÁM] / i-ru-ub-[u-ni x x x] / ina UGU-ḫi KI-tum ú-sa-⸢dir⸣-[ma i-nu-uš] / at-ta-as-[ḫa o] / 1 ina ITI.BARAG KI ŠÚ-[ub] / NUN KUR-su ⸢BAL⸣-[kàt-su] / lu-u la…
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 P336564.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Hermann Hunger, Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria, 8), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016-17, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336564/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336564/.
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