SAA 08 223. (no title) (RMA 277P) [unclassifiable]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336590

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] ... [......] disappeared in the east; a rainbow flared up. (r 2) [On the x]th [day] (the moon) will be seen with the sun.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ [x] ⸢x⸣ [x x x] / [x x x x x] ina dUTU.È it-⸢bal⸣ / dTIR.AN.NA it-tap-ḫa / [30 UD] ⸢x⸣-KÁM TAv dUTU / [in]-na-mar

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 P336590.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336590). 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/P336590/.

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