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SAA 08 147. Jupiter and Scorpius in Lunar Halo (RMA 094) [planetary]
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High confidence(1) This night, the moon was surrounded by a halo, [and] Jupiter and Scorpius [stood] in [it]. (3) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Sagmegar (Jupiter) stands in it: the king of Akkad will be shut up. (5) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Nēberu stands in it: fall of cattle and wild animals. (7) The star of Marduk at its appearance is (called) Šulpa'e; when it rises 1 'double-hour' it is (called) Sagmegar; when it stands in the middle of the sky, it is (called) Nēberu. (r 2) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Scorpius stands in it: entu-priestesses will be made pregnant;…
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336421/
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Transliteration
MI an-ni-ú d30 TÙR NÍGIN-[ma] / dSAG.ME.GAR MUL.GÍR.TAB ina ŠÀ-[šú GUB] / 1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma dSAG.ME.GAR ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz / LUGAL URI.KI ú-ta-sa-ar / 1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma dné-bi-ru ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz / ŠUB-tim MÁŠ.ANŠE na-maš-še-e šá EDIN / ⸢MUL⸣—dAMAR.UTU ina IGI.LAL-šú dŠUL.PA.È / 01 KASKAL.GÍD i-šaq-qa-ma dSAG.ME.GAR / ina MURUB₄ AN-e GUB-ma dné-bi-ru / 1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma MUL.GÍR.TAB ina ŠÀ-šú GUB /…
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 P336421.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336421). 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/P336421/.
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