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SAA 08 281. Sighting of Mercury (RMA 216C) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [M]ercury became visible. (3) If a planet becomes visible within a month: flood and rain. (5) [If a pl]anet is red brown: [plent]y for the people. (r 1) From Nergal-eṭir.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[MUL.UDU].IDIM.GUD.UD / it-tan-mar / 1 MUL.UDU.IDIM ina ITI in-nam-ru / A.KAL ù A.AN / [1 MUL.UDU].IDIM SA₅ / [ḪÉ].⸢NUN⸣ UN-MEŠ / šá mdU.GUR—KAR-ir
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 P237882.
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/P237882/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237882/.
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