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SAA 08 068. Taurus in Lunar Halo (RMA 106) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon is surrounded by a halo and the star (called) "Crown of Anu" stands in it: [the king] is well; there will be tru[th and justice] in the land. (4) — Taurus stands in the halo of the moon. For two days in a row it stood in the halo of the moon. (r 1) 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/P336431/
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Transliteration
1 30 TÙR NIGIN-ma / MUL.a-nu—AGA ina ŠÀ-bi-šú GUB-iz / [LUGAL] šá-lim* kit-[tú u mi-šá-ru] ina KUR GÁL-ši / [MUL].GUD.AN.NA ina TÙR 30 / iz-za-az-ma / 02 UD-me i—da-at a-ḫe-e-⸢iš⸣ / ina TÙR d30 it-ti-it-⸢zi⸣ / 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 P336431.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336431). 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/P336431/.
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