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SAA 08 364. Mars and Taurus in Lunar Halo (RMA 104) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If ...] becomes visible [...]: rain and flood will last long. (3) [If Ma]rs stands in it: wild animals [...; da]tes will not prosper, variant: the Westland will diminish. (6) [If the moon in month Sili]liti rides in a chariot: [the dominion of the king of Akkad] will prosper, and he will conquer [his enemies]. (r 1) — [The Old Man star] stands in the halo of the moon [in Sh]ebat (XI). (r 2) [If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and] the star of Anu, the crown, [stands] in it: [the king is well]; there will be [trut]h and justice in his land. (r 4) [From Apl]aya.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P236995/
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Transliteration
[1 x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ IGI-ir / [x]+⸢x⸣ A.AN u A.KAL ZAL.ZAL / [1 MUL.ṣal]-⸢bat⸣-a-nu ina ŠÀ-šú GUB / [x] NÍG.ZI.GÁL EDIN.NA / [x x x ZÚ].⸢LUM⸣.MA NU SI.SÁ-MEŠ : KUR—MAR TUR / [1 30 ina ITI.si-li]-li-e-ti GIŠ*.GIGIR* ra-⸢kib⸣ / [LUGAL URI.KI ni-ir]-šú SI.SÁ-ma / [a.a-bi-šú] ⸢ŠU⸣.2-su KUR-ád / [MUL.ŠU.GI ina] ⸢ITI⸣.ZÍZ ina TÙR 30 GUB-ma* / [1 30 TÙR NIGIN-ma] ⸢MUL⸣.da-num—AGA ina ŠÀ-[šú GUB-iz] / [LUGAL šá-lim kit]-⸢tú*⸣ u mi*-šá*-ru ina KUR-šú GÁL / [šá mDUMU].⸢UŠ?⸣-a
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 P236995.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P236995). 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/P236995/.
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