Position in chronology
SAA 08 170. Morning First of Jupiter (RMA 185) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If Jupiter] becomes steady in the morning: enemy [kings] will make peace. (3) [If Jupiter in] Sivan (III) approaches and stands where the sun shines forth, (if) it is [br]ight and its features are red, its [ri]sing is as perfect as the rising of the sun: angry [go]ds will be reconciled with Akkad; there will be copious rains (and) regular floods in Akkad; barley and sesame will increase, and the equivalent of (only) 1 litre will (have to) be paid for 1 kor; [the gods] in the sky will stand in their (appropriate) positions; their [shr]ines will see wealth. (r 1) [If A]uriga carries…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ina] še-er-ti ik-tu-⸢un⸣ / [LUGAL-MEŠ] KÚR-MEŠ SILIM-MEŠ / [1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ina] ITI.SIG₄ ú-qar-rib-ma / [a]-⸢šar⸣ dUTU ul-ta-pa-a GUB-iz / [ba]-ʾi-ìl zi-mu-šú SA₅ / [ni]-pi-iḫ-šú ki-ma ni-pi-iḫ dUTU ga-mir / ⸢DINGIR⸣-MEŠ ze-nu-ti KI KUR—URI.KI SILIM-MEŠ / A.AN ṭaḫ-du-ti A.KAL si-id-ru-ti / ina KUR—URI.KI GÁL-MEŠ / ŠE u ŠE.GIŠ.Ì i-ma-id-ma / [x] KI.LAM 01 qa-ÀM a-na 01 GUR…
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 P336491.
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/P336491/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336491/.
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