Position in chronology
SAA 08 056. Morning Last of Venus (RMA 204) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If Venus disappears in the east in Nisan (I) from the 1st to the 30th day: there will be wailings in the land. (4) If Venus keeps, variant: kept, changing her po[sition] ...: campaigns of the enemy, falsehood, variant: ... (7) [......] ... [......] his god will [...]. (r 1) [If Venus] descends darkly to the horizon and sets: there will be a fall of Elam. (r 3) From Nabû-ahhe-[eriba].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 MUL.dil-⸢bat⸣ ina ITI.BARAG TAv UD 01-⸢KÁM⸣ / a-di UD 30-KÁM ina dUTU.È it-⸢bal⸣ / ú-ru-ba-a-ti ina KUR GÁL-MEŠ-a / 1 MUL.dil-bat ⸢KI*⸣.[GUB]-sà ut-ta-nak-kar / KI.MIN ut-ta-⸢kir⸣ x ger-ret LÚ.KÚR / ṣar-ra-a-ti KI.MIN bi-ra-a-ti / [x x x x] ú ma [x x x x x] / [x x x x] DINGIR-šú ú-da-[x x x] / [1 MUL.dil-bat] ad-riš uš-tak-ti-⸢it⸣-ma ⸢ir-bi⸣ / ⸢ŠUB⸣-tim NIM.MA.KI GÁL-ši / 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 P336505.
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/P336505/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336505/.
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