Position in chronology
SAA 08 030. Occultation of Old Man Star (RMA 244) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the Old Man star comes to stand close to the top of the moon and enters the moon: the king will stand in triumph, he will become old and [extend] his land; he will be happy about his land; there will be truth and justice in the land. (r 1) From Issar-šumu-ereš.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 MUL.ŠU.GI ana UGU 30 / SI₄-ma GUB ana ŠÀ 30 TU / LUGAL ina li-i-ti GUB-az / i-šá-ab-ma KUR-su ⸢DAGAL⸣ / UGU KUR-šú DÙG.GA-[ab] / NÍG.ZI u mi-šá-[ru] / ina KUR GÁL-[ši] / ša m15—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 P336538.
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/P336538/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336538/.
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