Position in chronology
SAA 08 403. Morning Last of Venus, Saturn in Lunar Halo (RMA 174A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and [the sun] stands in it: [they will speak the truth in the land]; the son [will speak the truth] with his father. (4) Venus [......] a month and 10 days [...] ... [...]. (7) If Venus [disappears] in Nisan (I) [from the 1st] to the 30th day in [the east: there will be] wailin[g in the land]. (r 1) If Venus at her rising ... [...] the land will become hap[py]. (r 3) In the east evil [......]. (r 4) From Rašil, son of Nu[rzanu].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma [dUTU] / i-na ŠÀ-bi-šú GUB [ina KUR kit-tú i-ta-mu-ú] / DUMU it-ti AD-⸢šú⸣ [kit-tú i-ta-mi] / MUL.dil-bat ⸢x⸣ [x x x] / ITI ù 10 UD-mu ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / UN DI ⸢ma⸣ [x x x] / 1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.BARAG [TA UD 01-KAM] / EN UD 30-KÁM ina [dUTU.È.A it-bal] / ú-ru-ba-a-⸢ti⸣ [ina KUR GÁL] / 1 MUL.dil-bat ina KUR-šá KI [x x] / ŠÀ KUR i-[ṭa-ab] / i-na dUTU.È ḪUL [x x x] / šá mTUK-ši—DINGIR DUMU mnu-[úr-za-nu]
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 P238039.
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/P238039/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P238039/.
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