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SAA 08 056. Morning Last of Venus (RMA 204) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(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].
Source: 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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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: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336505). 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/P336505/.
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