SAA 08 074. (no title) (RMA 212) [unclassifiable]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336514

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(1) If the Goat star produces a mišhu: the gods will for[give] the land, [they will have] mercy on the land. (4) This night it produced a mišhu. (6) Mercury [and Venus are apart] from each other, they passed and went [on]. (r 1) From Nabû-ahhe-eriba.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

1 MUL.ÙZ meš-ḫa im-⸢šuḫ⸣ / DINGIR-MEŠ ana KUR ⸢BÚR⸣-[MEŠ] / ana KUR ARḪUŠ [TUK-MEŠ] / mu-šu an-ni-ú / meš-ḫu im-[šuḫ-ma] / [o] MUL.UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD [MUL.dil-bat] / TAv IGI a-ḫe-e-iš [pa-ti-u] / e-[ta]-⸢at⸣-qu DU-[ku] / 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 P336514.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336514). 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/P336514/.

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