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SAA 08 175. Evening First of Venus before Cancer (RMA 207) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) Venus became visible in the west in the path of the Enlil stars. This is its interpretation: (3) If Venus becomes visible in Sivan (III): fall of the enemy. (4) If Venus becomes visible in the path of the Enlil stars: the king of Akkad will have no rival. (6) Until the 5th or 6th day she will reach Cancer. This is its interpretation: (r 1) [If] the Goat star comes close to Cancer: there will be reconciliation and peace in the land; the gods will have mercy on the land; empty storage bins will become full; the harvest of the land will prosper; there will be recoveries from illness in the…
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336509/
Why it matters
Transliteration
ddil-bat ina dUTU.ŠÚ.A ina KASKAL šu-ut dEN.LÍL IGI-mar / an-ni-ú pi-še-er-šu / 1 ddil-bat ina ITI.SIG₄ IGI-ir ŠUB-tim LÚ.KÚR / 1 ddil-bat ina KASKAL šu-ut dEN.LÍL IGI-ir / LUGAL URI.KI GABA.RI NU TUK-ši / a-du UD-MEŠ 05 06 MUL.AL.LUL i-kaš-šá-ad / an-ni-ú pi-še-er-šu / [1] MUL.ÙZ a-na MUL.AL.LUL TE-ḫi / taš-mu-ú u sa-li-mu ina KUR GÁL-ši / DINGIR-MEŠ ana KUR ARḪUŠ TUK-MEŠ iš-pik-ki ri-qu-te /…
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 P336509.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336509). 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/P336509/.
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