Position in chronology
SAA 08 309. Red Sky (RMA 267A) [occasional]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the sky is covered with red: there will be abundance in the land. (2) Ṣillaya wrote to me by way of Šakin-šumi as follows: "I shall put you to death! Why do you say: 'Ṣillaya took away my property'? Munnabitu is witness against you" — (7) (I swear) by Bel [...] the witness is my adversary! Whatever he took away from my property is well known! (r 2) Everything about which I spoke in front of the king, and there is (some) about what I did not speak to the king, everything he took. He has removed my father's house from my hands, and continually he devises tricks and plots against my life. May the king my lord not abandon me! (r 8) From Zakir.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 AN-e SA₅ ma-ḫi-iṣ ḪÉ.GÁL ina KUR GÁL-ši / mṣil-la-a ina ŠU.2 mGAR—MU il-tap-ra / um-ma ana mi-tu-tu a-na-ad-di-ka / um-ma mi-nam-ma ta-qab-bi um-ma / mṣil-la-a NÍG.ŠID-ia it-ta-ši / um-ma mmun-na-bit-tum LÚ.mu-kin-ni-ka / u d⸢EN x x⸣ LÚ.EN—di-ni-ía LÚ.mu-kin-nu / mi-nu-ú ina ŠÀ NÍG.ŠID-ía ma-la / iš-šú-ú ki-i la me-du-ú / mim-ma ma-la ina pa-an LUGAL ad-bu-bu / u i-ba-áš-ši šá a-na LUGAL la…
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 P236907.
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/P236907/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P236907/.
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