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SAA 08 041. Mars, Saturn and Regulus in Lunar Halo (RMA 098) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon is surrounded by a black halo: the month holds rain, variant: clouds will be gathered. (4) — Saturn stands in the halo of the moon. (5) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Mars stands in it: loss of cattle; the Westland will become smaller. (8) That is bad for the Westland. (r 1) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Regulus stands in it: in that year pregnant women [wil]l give birth to male children. (r 4) — Re[gulus] stands in the halo of the moon. (r 5) [From Nabû]-ahhe-eriba.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 d30 TÙR GI₆ NIGIN o* / ITI A.AN ú-kal KI.MIN IM.DIRI-[MEŠ] / uk-ta-ṣa-ra / MUL.UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ ina TÙR d30 i-za-az-ma / 1 d30 TÙR NIGIN-ma MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu / ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz ZÁḪ MÁŠ.ANŠE / KUR—MAR.TU.KI TUR-ir / lum-nu šá KUR a-mur-re-e šu-u / 1 d30 TÙR NIGIN-ma MUL.LUGAL / ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz ina MU BI MÍ.PEŠ₄-MEŠ / NITA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [Ù].TU-MEŠ / MUL.[LUGAL ina] TÙR 30 GUB-ma / [ša mdPA]—PAB-MEŠ—SU
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 P336425.
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/P336425/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336425/.
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