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SAA 08 096. Evening Last of Venus (RMA 208A) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336510

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8
High confidence
(1) [If Venus disappears in the west in Ab (V) from] the 1st to the 30th day: there will be [rains]; the harvest of the land will prosper. (3) [If Venus in Ab (V)] descends darkly to the horizon and sets: [fall of Elam and it]s troops in battle will take place. (5) [......] will make less [......] and [......] ... (8) [......] ... [......] ... (r 1) [......] days [......] she [...... its] interpre[tation is as fo]llows: (r 4) [If ...] comes close [to the moon] and stan[ds] there: [......] will be sated [...... the king of the land] will widen [(his) understanding ...]. (r 7) [...... tou]ched [...]. (r 8) [From Bala]sî.

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

Transliteration

[1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.NE TA] UD 01-KÁM EN UD 30-KÁM / [ina dUTU.ŠÚ.A TÙM A.AN-MEŠ] GÁL-MEŠ BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ / [1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.NE] ⸢ad⸣-riš uš-tak-ti-it-ma ir-bi / [ŠUB-tim NIM.MA u] ⸢ERIM⸣-šú ina GIŠ.TUKUL GAR-an / [x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ ú-maṭ-ṭa-ma / [x x x x x x x x x x]-ma / [x x x x x x x x x x]-ki / [x x x x x x x x]-kan-ni / [x x x x x x x x x]-ḫi / [x x x x x x x x x x] UD-MEŠ / [x x…

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 P336510.

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/P336510/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336510/.

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