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SAA 08 093. Mercury in Lunar Halo (RMA 091) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Šulpa'e [stands] in [it]: attack of the troops of the Westla[nd]; variant: there will be barley so that there will be no famine; variant: the king of Akkad will experience confinement. (5) If the moon is surrounded by a river: there will be a green crop in the land; variant: it will rain. (8) — A halo surrounded Erua. (r 1) If the star of Marduk produces a mišhu: the land will eat abundant bread. (r 3) — The star of Marduk, Mercury, is going beyond its (normal) position and ascends. (r 6) Afterwards, on the 14th day, (the moon) [was seen] with the s[un]. (r 7) From Bala[sî].
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336419/
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Transliteration
1 30 TÙR NIGIN-ma MUL.ŠUL.PA.È ina ŠÀ-[šú GUB-iz] / ZI-ut ERIM KUR.a-mur-[ri-i] / : ŠE-im GÁL-ma ub-bu-tu NU GÁL-[ši] / : LUGAL URI.KI ú-sur-tú IGI-mar / 1 30 ÍD NIGIN ur-qí-tú ŠE.GÙN.NU / ina KUR GÁL-ši / : A.AN ŠUR-nun / TÙR MUL.⸢A.EDIN?⸣ NIGIN-ma / 1 MUL—dAMAR.UTU me-iš-ḫu im-šu-uḫ / KUR NINDA nap-šá ik-kal / MUL—dAMAR.UTU MUL.UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD / a-na man-za-zi-šú ú-šá-tar-ma / i-šá-qa-am-ma / EGIR-šú UD 14-KÁM ⸢TAv⸣ d[UTU IGI-ma] / ša mba-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 P336419.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336419). 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/P336419/.
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