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SAA 08 085. Mars Stationary in Scorpius (RMA 068) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If the moon in] Sivan (III) becomes visible on the 30th day: the Ahlamû will devour [the wealth] of the Westland. (3) [If the moon] becomes visible on the 30th day: frost; there will be rumor of the enemy. (5) [If at the moon's] appearance the north wind blows: that month the flood will come. (7) [If at the sun's] rising a cloudbank lies to its right: Adad will devastate. (r 1) Mars has departed, it goes forward; it will become stationary [in] Scorpius. [To]morrow I shall inform the king my lord. (r 6) [From] B[alas]î.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336400/
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Transliteration
[1 30 ina] ⸢ITI⸣.SIG₄ UD 30-KÁM IGI / [ṭuḫ-du] a-mur-ri-i / aḫ-la-mu-u KÚ / [1 30] UD 30-KÁM IGI šu-ru-up-pu-u / ri-gim KÚR GÁL-ši / [1 30] ina IGI.LAL-šú IM.SI.SÁ DU / ITI BI A.KAL DU-kám / [1 20] ina KUR-šú ina 15-šú ni-du na*-[di] / dIM RA-iṣ / MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu ut-ta-me-iš / a-na pa-na-tu-uš-šú il-lak / [ina] ⸢ŠÀ⸣ MUL.GÍR.TAB in-né-me-da / [ina] ši-i-a-ri a-na LUGAL EN-ia / ú-šaḫ-ka-am / [ša] m⸢ba⸣-[la]-⸢si⸣-i
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 P336400.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336400). 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/P336400/.
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