SAA 08 028. (no title) (RMA 021A) [unclassifiable]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336379

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [If the day] reaches its normal length: [a reign] of long days. (3) This night, [Mar]s came out [of] Cancer. (5) [From] Issar-šumu-ereš.

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

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Transliteration

[1 UD ana mi-na]-ti-šu e-ri-ik / [BALA] UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-MEŠ / [MUL.ṣal-bat]-a-nu mu-šu an-ni-u / [TAv ŠÀ] ⸢MUL⸣.AL.LUL ú-ṣa / [ša m]15—MU—KAM-eš

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 P336379.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336379). 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/P336379/.

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