Position in chronology
SAA 08 239. Birth Omens (CT 28 032) [terrestrial]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If a ram's horns are joined in front: that fold will be increased. (3) If a ram's horns are blunted, variant: broken in front: that fold will expand. (4) If an anomaly's horns are where its right and left ears (should be): the king will rule the (four) quarters. (6) If an anomaly's (only) horn protrudes from its head: the weapon of the king will endure; the land of the prince will expand; the weapons of the king will be strong and the king will have no opponent. (9) [If an anomaly] has only one horn, and it protrudes from the top of its head: the land of the prince will expand; [your…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
BE UDU.NÍTA SI-MEŠ-šú ana IGI-šú it-ta-en-mi-da / TÙR BI ú-ta-tar / BE UDU.NÍTA SI-MEŠ-šú ana IGI-šú ḫas-ra : ḫaṣ-ṣa TÙR BI DAGAL-iš / BE iz-bu SI-MEŠ-šú a-šar PI.2-šú 15 u KAB GAR-MEŠ / LUGAL UB-MEŠ i-be-el / BE iz-bu SI-šú ina SAG.DU-šú È GIŠ.TUKUL LUGAL GI.NA / KUR NUN DAGAL-iš GIŠ.TUKUL LUGAL KALAG-MEŠ-ma / LUGAL GABA.RI NU* TUK-ši / [BE iz]-⸢bu SI-šú⸣ 01-ma ina UGU-šú È KUR NUN DAGAL-eš /…
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 P336147.
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/P336147/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336147/.
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