Position in chronology
SAA 08 096. Evening Last of Venus (RMA 208A) [planetary]
Translation · reference
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.
Source: 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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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: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336510). 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/P336510/.
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