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SAA 08 158. Meteor, Sighting of Mercury (RMA 200) [planetary, occasional]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If a star flares up and its flare is as bright as daylight, (and) in its flaring up it has a tail like a scorpion: this sign is good; it does not (only) refer to the master of the house, but to the whole land. (4) If there is bennu-disease in all lands: the evil man will disappear, there will be truth, the poor will become rich, the rich will become poor; this master of the house, variant: this king, will stand in his truth; there will be reconciliation and peace in the land. (8) This (omen) is from the se[ries]. (9) If a meteor [flares up] from the rising of the [north wind] to the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 MUL SUR-ma ṣe-re-er-šú GIM UD.DA na-mir / ina ṣa-ra-ri-šú GIM nam-maš-ti GÍR.TAB KUN GAR-in / GISKIM ši-i SIG₅ ul šá EN—É-ma ša KUR ka-la-šá / BE-ma be-en-nu ina KUR DÙ.A.BI GÁL-ši / rag-gu ZÁḪ kit-tu GÁL-ši lap-nu i-šar-ri / NÍG.TUK LÁL.DU EN—É BI KI.MIN LUGAL BI / ina kit-ti-šú GUB-az taš-mu-u SILIM-mu ina KUR GÁL / an-ni-u ša iš-[ka-ri] / 1 MUL—GAL ul-tu ti-ib [IM.SI.SÁ] / a-na ti-ib…
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 P336503.
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/P336503/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336503/.
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