Position in chronology
SAA 08 438. Occultation of Jupiter (RMA 193) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If Jupiter ent[ers] the moon: there will be famine in the Westland; the king of Elam will die, variant: a noble will rebel against his lord. (4) If the moon covers Jupiter: the king will capture enemy kings. (6) [If] on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favor[ably]; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the ste[ppe] undisturbed; the harvest-time grass will last until winter, the winter grass until harvest time; [j]oy among the troops; the king will become happy. (r 5) [If] the moon and sun are in…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢1⸣ MUL.SAG.ME.GAR a-na ŠÀ-bi d30 ⸢TU⸣ / su-un-qu ina KUR—MAR.TU GÁL-ši / LUGAL NIM.MA.KI ÚŠ : IDIM EN-šú i-ba-ru / ⸢1⸣ d30 MUL.ŠUL.PA.È.A i-rim / LUGAL LUGAL-MEŠ KÚR-MEŠ ŠU.2-su KUR-ád / [1] UD 14-KÁM d30 u dUTU KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ / KA GI.NA ŠÀ-bi KUR DÙG-ab / DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI a-na da-me-[iq-ti] / i-ḫa-sa-⸢su⸣ / bu-lum KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš ina ⸢EDIN⸣ / i-rab-bi-ṣu di-iš BURU₁₄ ana…
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 P237292.
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/P237292/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237292/.
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