Position in chronology
SAA 08 302. Saturn, Regulus, and Orion in Lunar Halo [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If Venus ... from] the 1st to the 30th day [......]. (Break) (2) Venus [...] days [......] did not reach and set [......] of Elam. Signs in the east [......] Venus is the star of Elam; in the east [...]. (r 3) If the sun is surrounded by a halo: it will rain; change of weather. (r 4) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Orion stands in it: the king of Subartu will exercise world rule; his land will thri[ve]. (r 6) [If the sun] stands [in] the halo of the moon: all lands will speak the truth; [the son] will speak the truth with his father. (r 8) [If the moon] is surrounded [by a halo], and Regulus stands in it: women [will give bir]th to male children. (r 10) From Zakir.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 MUL.dil-bat x x TA] UD 01-KÁM EN UD 30-KAM / [MUL].dil-bat UD-ME [x x x x] / [x] ul ik-šu-da u ir-ta-bi [x x x] / šá KUR.NIM.KI GISKIM-ME dUTU.⸢È?⸣ [x x x x] / MUL.dil-bat MUL KUR.NIM.KI ina dUTU.⸢È⸣ [x x x] / 1 20 TÙR NÍGIN A.AN ŠUR-nun MÌN-e UD-mi / 1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma MUL.SIPA.ZI.AN.NA ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-[iz] / LUGAL SU.KI kiš-šú-tú DÙ-uš KUR-su i-na-aḫ-ḫi-[iš] / [1 20 ina] TÙR 30 GUB KUR DÙ.A.BI…
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 P237547.
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/P237547/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237547/.
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