Position in chronology
SAA 08 069. Solar Halo (RMA 178) [solar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If] the sun rises and go[es] forward: the king of the world will make his reign lo[ng]. (3) If in Adar (XII) the sun is surrounded by a halo in the morning: in this month the flood will come; variant: it will rain. (6) This is in a sign from Jupiter; the rest of the words are like its sign, and concern rain and flood.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336486/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1] dšá-maš KUR-ma ana IGI-šú ⸢DU⸣ / LUGAL kiš-šá-ti BALA-šú GÍD.[DA] / 1 ina ITI.a-da-ri dšá-maš ina še-rim / TÙR NIGIN ina ITI BI / A.KAL DU-kam KI.MIN AN-ú ŠUR-nun / ina ŠÀ it-ti ša MUL.SAG.ME.GAR / šu-ú / re-eḫ-ti di-ib-bi / ki-i it-ti-šu-ma / a-na zu-un-ni a-na me-li
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 P336486.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336486). 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/P336486/.
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