Position in chronology
SAA 08 437. Mercury Sighted in Leo (RMA 222) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If a planet becomes visible in Elul (VI): rising of the harvest, plenitude of grain. (3) If the stars of Leo ...: the king will be victorious wherever he goes. (6) If Leo is dark: lions and wolves will rage and cut off travel to the Westland. (r 3) From Ṭabiya.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237294/
Why it matters
Transliteration
1 MUL.UDU.IDIM ina ITI.KIN IGI-ir / šá-qé-e BURU₁₄ na-pa-áš ni-is-sa-bu / 1 MUL.UR.MAḪ MUL-MEŠ-šú ul-tap-pu-ú / LUGAL a-šar il-la-ku / li-is-su / 1 MUL.UR.GU.LA a-⸢dir⸣ / UR.MAḪ-MEŠ u UR.BAR.RA-[MEŠ] / in-nam-da-ru-ma / a-lak-ti KUR—MAR.TU KUD-MEŠ / šá mṭa-bi-ia
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 P237294.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237294). 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/P237294/.
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