Position in chronology
SAA 08 175. Evening First of Venus before Cancer (RMA 207) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(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…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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: 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/P336509/..
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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