SAA 08 078. Red Clouds (RMA 248) [weather]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336547

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(1) If a red cloud keeps being placed in the sky: (2) wind will arise. (r 1) From Nabû-ahhe-eriba.

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

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Transliteration

1 IM.DIRI / SA₅ ina AN-e / GAR.GAR-nu TU₁₅ ZI-a / 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 P336547.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336547). 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/P336547/.

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