Position in chronology
SAA 08 097. (no title) (RMA 277F) [unclassifiable]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [......] star stands (2) [......] is placed together (3) [......] meet each other (4) [......] ... (5) [......] ... (6) [......] will be in the land (Break) (10) [......] ... [......] ... (r 1) [......] came near to Mars. (r 2) [This] is its interpretation: (r 3) [......] this ... [......] ... (r 5) [The sign which] came is our share (r 6) [...... which] we have let pass (r 7) [......] there is [......]. (r 8) I shall inform the king [......]. (r 9) [......] day (r 10) [......] I will inform. (r 11) [From Bal]asî.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336587/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x x] MUL GUB / [x x x x x] ⸢iš⸣-te-niš GAR-an / [x x x x x]-ru it-ti-me-du / [x x x x x] ad-da-nu / [x x x x x] x šá te / [x x x x x x] KUR GÁL / [x x x x x x x] šú / [x x x x x x x x] di / [x x x x MUL.ṣal]-bat-a-nu ⸢iṭ⸣-ṭe-ḫu-u / [an-ni-u] pi-[še]-er-šú / [x x x x] KUR ši-i / [x x x x] ú-ḫi-in ⸢x⸣ bi / [it-tu ša] tal-li-kan-ni zi-it-ti-ni / [x x x x] ⸢nu⸣-še-ti-iq / [x x x x x]-a i-ba-áš-ši / [x x x x x] a-na LUGAL ú-šaḫ-kam / [x x x x x x x] UD-mu / [x x x x x x] lu-šaḫ-ki-im / [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 P336587.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336587). 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/P336587/.
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