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SAA 08 145. Morning Last of Venus (RMA 205) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Venus set in the east. (2) If Venus gets a flare: it is not good. This means she does not complete her days (of visibility) but sets. (5) If Venus disappears in the east in Nisan (I) from the 1st to the 30th day: there will be wailings in the land. "Wailings" are weepings. This is bad for Elam. (r 3) From [Nabû]-mušeṣi.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336506/
Why it matters
Transliteration
MUL.dil-bat ina dUTU.È ir-ti-bi / 1 MUL.dil-bat ṣir-ḫa TUK-ši NU SIG₅ / ša UD-MEŠ-šá la ú-šal-li-mu-ma / ir-bu-ú / 1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.BARAG / TAv UD 01-KÁM EN UD 30-KÁM / ina dUTU.È it-bal / ú-ru-ba-a-ti / ina KUR GÁL-MEŠ / ú-ru-ba-a-ti bi-ka-a-ti / ḪUL ša KUR.NIM.MA.KI šu-ú / ša md[PA]—mu-še-ṣi
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 P336506.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336506). 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/P336506/.
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