SAA 08 444. Thunder in Tišri (RMA 260) [weather]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P237293

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(1) If Adad thunders in Tishri (VII): there will be hostility in the land. (3) If it rains in Tishri (VII): fall of sick people and cattle, variant: fall of the enemy. (r 1) From Ṭabiya.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

1 ina ITI.DU₆ dIM GÙ-šú ŠUB-di / nu-kur-tu ina KUR GÁL-ši / 1 ina ITI.DU₆ AN-ú ŠUR-nun / ŠUB-tim GIG-MEŠ / u GUD-MEŠ / : ŠUB-tim LÚ.KÚR / 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 P237293.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237293). 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/P237293/.

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