Position in chronology
SAA 08 082. Mars and Saturn in Lunar Halo on Full Moon Day (RMA 088) [planetary, lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If the moon] becomes late at an inappropriate time and does not become visible: attack of a ruling city. (3) — It sets on the 15th day and is seen with the sun on the 16th day. (4) If Mars keeps going around a planet: barley will become expensive. (5) If the Raven star reaches the path of the sun: business will diminish; variant: there will be clamor. (7) These are words concerning Akkad. Mars remained four fingers distant from Saturn, it did not come close. It did not reach it. I have (nevertheless) copied (the relevant omen). What does it matter? Let the pertinent namburbi ritual be…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 30 ina] la si-ma-ni-šú uḫ-ḫi-ra-ma NU IGI.LAL / [te]-bé-e URU kiš-šá-ti / UD 15-KÁM i-rab-bi-ma UD 16-KÁM KI dUTU IGI-ma / 1 MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu MUL.UDU.IDIM is-sa-na-aḫ-ḫur ŠE-im iq-qir / 1 MUL.UGA.MUŠEN KASKAL dUTU KUR-ud GÁN.BA TUR-ir / šá-ni-iš ri-ig-mu GAR-an / an-nu-ti di-ib-bi a-na KUR—URI.KI / MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu / er-bi / ú-ba-ni TA IGI MUL.UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ / pa-a-te la iṭ-ḫi ina UGU-ḫi ⸢la⸣…
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 P336417.
Attribution
Image: Adapted from Hermann Hunger, Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria, 8), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016-17, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P336417/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336417/.
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