Position in chronology
SAA 08 415. Mars Near Venus (RMA 236B) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If Mars stands in [...] to the left of Venus: [there will be] devastation in Akkad; the pen of horses [...]. (r 1) If the Panther becomes visible ... [...]: lamentation of ...[...]. (r 3) — Planets stand in the constellation [...]. (r 5) This evil is for [......] will [...] nobody. (r 7) From Rašil [...].
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237920/
Why it matters
Transliteration
1 MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu ina ⸢x⸣+[x x] / ina KAB MUL.dil-bat ú-⸢šu?⸣-[uz?] / ár-bu-tu ina KUR—URI.KI [x x] / TÙR ANŠE.KUR.RA-MEŠ [x x] / 1 MUL.UD.KA.DU₈.A IGI ⸢x⸣ [x x] / ta-az-zi-im-ti DINGIR NI [x x x] / MUL.UDU.IDIM-MEŠ ina ŠÀ-bi MUL.[x x] / GUB-MEŠ-[ma] / ḪUL šu-ú a-na [x x x x] / mam-ma la ú-ta-[x x x] / šá mTUK-ši—DINGIR [x x x x x]
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 P237920.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237920). 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/P237920/.
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