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SAA 08 181. Mars, Saturn and Regulus in Lunar Halo (RMA 100) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Sa[turn] stands in it: there [will b]e truth in the land, and the son will speak the truth with his father; universal peace. (5) If ditto Regulus stands in it: women will give birth to male children. (7) [If ditt]o Mars stands in it: fall of cattle in all lands; the plantation of dates and sesame will not prosper, variant: the Westland will diminish. (r 5) From Urad-Ea.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336427/
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Transliteration
1 30 TÙR NIGIN-ma dUDU.⸢IDIM⸣.[SAG.UŠ] / ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz kit-tú ina KUR ⸢GÁL⸣ / DUMU KI AD-šú kit-tu i-ta-me / sa-lim kiš-šá-ti / 1 MIN MUL.LUGAL ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz / MÍ-MEŠ NITA-MEŠ Ù.TU / [1] ⸢MIN⸣ MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz / ZÁḪ MÁŠ.ANŠE ina KUR DÙ.A.BI / me-re-šú ZÚ.LUM.MA ŠE.GIŠ.Ì / NU SI.SÁ / KI.MIN KUR—MAR.TU.KI TUR-ir / šá mARAD—dÉ.A
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 P336427.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336427). 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/P336427/.
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