Position in chronology
SAA 08 326. Morning First of Jupiter near Pleiades (RMA 187A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If J]upiter becomes visible in Iyyar (II): [the land wil]l eat abundant food. (3) [If J]upiter becomes visible in the p[ath of the Anu stars: the flo]od will come, and the harvest of the land will prosper. (5) [If J]upiter is red at its appearance: there will be [abun]dance in Akkad. (7) [If] Marduk reaches the Pleiades: there will be [...] ... (r 1) [From A]šaredu the older, [servant] of the king.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 MUL].SAG.ME.GAR ina ITI.GUD IGI / [KUR] ⸢NINDA*⸣-ḪI.A nap*-šá* [ik]-kal* / [1 MUL].SAG.ME.GAR ina ⸢KASKAL*⸣ [šu-ut da-nu] IGI / [A].⸢KAL*⸣ DU-ma BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ / [1 MUL].SAG.ME.GAR ina IGI.LAL-šú SA₅ / [ḪÉ].⸢NUN*⸣ ina KUR—URI.KI GÁL-ši / [1 d]AMAR.UTU MUL.MUL KUR-ud / [x x]-si-šú GÁL-ši / [šá ma]-šá-ri-du IGI-ú / [ARAD] šá LUGAL
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 P238065.
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/P238065/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P238065/.
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