Position in chronology
SAA 08 311. Mars Near Moon (RMA 234) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If Mars comes close to the front of the moon and stands there: the moon god will resettle a bad land. (3) If a planet stands at the left horn of the moon: the king will exercise world rule. (4) If a star stands left in front of the moon: the king will exercise world rule. (5) If a star stands left behind the moon: the king of Akkad will exercise world rule. (7) If the Field star stands at its left horn: in that year the cultivated fields of Akkad will prosper. (9) If the Field star stands at (the moon's) shoulder: in that year the harvest of the land will prosper. (r 1) If a star stands…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢1⸣ MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu ana IGI 30 TE-ma GUB-iz / 30 KUR ḪUL-ta TUŠ-ib / 1 MUL.UDU.IDIM ina SI KAB 30 GUB LUGAL ŠÚ-tú DÙ-uš / 1 MUL ina IGI 30 KAB GUB LUGAL ŠÚ-tú DÙ-uš / 1 MUL ina EGIR 30 KAB GUB LUGAL URI.KI ŠÚ-tú DÙ-uš / 1 MUL.AŠ.GÁN ina SI KAB-šú GUB-iz ina MU BI / me-reš KUR—URI.KI SI.SÁ / 1 MUL.AŠ.GÁN ina MAŠ.QA-šú GUB ina MU BI BURU₁₄ KUR / SI.SÁ / 1 MUL ina SI 150 30 GUB KUR KÚR ḪUL ⸢IGI⸣ /…
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 P336527.
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/P336527/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336527/.
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