SAA 08 324. Morning First of Saturn in Leo (RMA 216) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P237915

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(1) Satu[rn] became visible [in]side of Leo. (3) If Leo is dark: for three years, [li]ons and wol[ves] will kill people and cut off traffic with the [Wes]tland. (r 1) If a planet rises in Ab (V): the cemetery of warriors will expand. (r 4) From Ašaredu the older.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

MUL.UDU.IDIM.SAG.[UŠ ina] ŠÀ-bi [o] / šá MUL.UR.GU.LA it-tan-mar / 1 MUL.UR.GU.LA a-dir / 03 MU-MEŠ [UR].MAḪ-MEŠ / u UR.BAR.⸢RA-MEŠ⸣ LÚ.U₁₈.LU GAZ / A.RÁ KUR—[MAR].⸢TU⸣ KUD-MEŠ / 1 MUL.UDU.IDIM ina ITI.NE / KUR-ḫa / KI.NÁ qu-ra-du DAGAL / šá ma-šá-ri-du IGI-ú

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 P237915.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237915). 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/P237915/.

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