Position in chronology
SAA 08 212. Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (RMA 211A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If Venus] reaches Jupiter and [follows, variant]: approaches and stands: a flood will carry off the land. (3) [If Jupiter] reaches [Venus] and passes her: a massive flood will come. (4) [If Venus] comes close to [Jupite]r: the king of the Westland [will see] destruction. [...] comes near: land will become hostile to king, brother to brother [......]. (6) [If ... dro]ps: the land will experience hemming in; [......]. (7) [If ...] is there continually: rain and floods will [...; the harvest of the la]nd will prosper [......]. (9) [......] it rains, a rainbow [stretches ......] ...…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 MUL.dil-bat MUL].ŠUL.PA.È ik-šu-dam-ma [o] / [i-red-di KI.MIN] iq-rib-ma GUB bi-ib-lum KUR ub-bal [o] / [1 MUL.dil-bat MUL.ŠUL.PA.È] ik-šu-dam-ma DIB-ši A.KAL gap-šú DU-⸢ak⸣ / [1 MUL.dil-bat ana MUL.ŠUL.PA].⸢È*⸣ TE LUGAL MAR.TU.KI NAM.GILIM.⸢MA⸣ [IGI] / [x x] DIM₄ KUR ana MAN ŠEŠ ŠEŠ KÚR-⸢ir*⸣ [x x x] / [1 x x] ⸢ŠUB⸣-di KUR me-si-ru IGI [x x x x] / [1 x x] sa-dir A.AN u A.KAL-MEŠ um [x x] /…
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 P336512.
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/P336512/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336512/.
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