Position in chronology
SAA 08 339. Comet and Evening Last of Jupiter (RMA 181B) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If] a comet [becomes visible in the path of the stars of] Anu: [fall of Elam. Its] people [......] will be confused [......] city with city [......] brother will kill brother [......] the king of Elam [......] his days are near (to their end). (r 3) If the sun rises in a cloudbank: 3,20 will become furious and raise weapons. [3,20 means "king."] (r 5) [Ju]piter remained ste[ady in] the sky for a month of da[ys]. May [the king of a]ll lands be everla[sting]! (r 8) [From Ašaredu].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1] ṣal-lum-mu-[u ina KASKAL šu-ut] / [o] da-num [IGI ŠUB-tim NIM.MA.KI] / UN-MEŠ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / SÙḪ-MEŠ [x x x x x] / URU KI ⸢URU⸣ [x x x x] / ŠEŠ ŠEŠ ⸢GAZ⸣ [x x x x] / LUGAL NIM.MA.⸢KI⸣ [x x x] / UD-MEŠ-šú qer-⸢bu⸣ / 1 20 ina ni-du KUR-ḫa 3.20 ŠÚR-[ma] / GIŠ.TUKUL ÍL-ši [3.20 LUGAL] / [MUL].SAG.ME.GAR ITI UD-[MEŠ] / [i-na] ⸢AN-e⸣ ik-tu-[un-ma] / [LUGAL] ⸢KUR⸣.KUR lu da-[ri] / [ša ma-šá-ri-du]
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 P336489.
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/P336489/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336489/.
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