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SAA 08 323. Morning First of Jupiter in Front of Cancer (RMA 187) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If J]upiter passes to the west: quiet [dwelling] and complete well-being will come down on the land. (3) — It is seen in front of Cancer. (4) If Jupiter stands in the path of the Enlil stars and its light ... carries radiance, and Nēberu [......] Akkad will thrive; the king of Akkad will become strong. (7) If Nēberu rises and the gods get peace: there will be [abu]ndance; confused (things) will be made bright, [blu]rred (things) will clear; rain and flood [will c]ome; the harvest-time grass will last until winter, the winter grass until harvest time; all lands will dwell in quiet; the…
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237893/
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Transliteration
[1 MUL].SAG.ME.GAR a-na dUTU.ŠÚ.A i-ti-iq / [KI.TUŠ] né-eḫ-ti šu-lum MÍ.SIG₅ ana KUR ur-ra-da / i-na pa-an MUL.AL.LUL in-nam-mar-ma / 1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ina KASKAL šu-ut dEN.[LÍL] ⸢GUB⸣-ma ⸢ZÁLAG*-šú* x⸣ / ŠE.ER.ZI ÍL-ma dné-bi-ru [x] x [x] / KUR—URI.KI ina-ḫi-iš LUGAL URI.KI i-dan-[nin] / 1 MUL.né-bi-ru SAR-ma DINGIR-MEŠ SILIM-ma TUK-MEŠ / [me]-šìr-tu GÁL-ši e-šá-a-ti i-nam-mi-ra / [dal]-ḫa-a-ti…
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 P237893.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237893). source
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237893/.
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