Position in chronology
SAA 08 036. Earthquake in Šebat (RMA 267) [weather]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the sky shouts and the earth [quakes]: the gods [...] the land [...] in all four directions of [Enlil ...] cities [...] hostility [...] sick people of the land will fall, variant: [......] (6) If the sky shouts and the earth [quakes]: Enlil [will bring about] the defeat of the land. (8) If the sky shouts and the earth qu[akes]: the cultivated fields will diminish ... [...] (10) If Ereškigal [utter]s her roar like a li[on]: the earth will turn the land into ruins. (12) If there is an earthquake in Shebat (XI): the furrow will reduce its yield; there will be campaigns of the enemy. (14)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 AN-ú is-su-ma KI.TIM [ir-tu-ub] / DINGIR-MEŠ KUR [x x x x] / UB.DA.LÍMMU.BA šá ⸢d⸣[EN.LÍL x x] / URU-MEŠ MÍ.KÚR [x x x x] / GIG-MEŠ KUR ŠUB-MEŠ KI.MIN ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / 1 AN-ú is-su-ma KI.TIM [ir-tu-ub] / dEN.LÍL ka-mar KUR [GAR-an] / 1 AN-ú is-su-ma KI.TIM ir-[tu-ub] / me-reš KUR i-ma-aṭ-ṭi šu du bu? uk? ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / 1 de-ri-iš-ki-gal ik-kil-la-šá GIM UR.[MAḪ ŠUB]-⸢di⸣ / KI.TIM KUR ŠUB-di / 1 ina…
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 P336569.
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/P336569/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336569/.
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