SAA 08 453. Fog and Rainbow (RMA 252) [weather]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238062

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(1) If a fog rolls in in Adar (XII): the land will go to ruin. (3) [If] a rainbow stretches from the zenith to the horizon: Adad will not devastate. (5) If a rainbow stretches over a city: the city, the king, and his nobles are safe. (r 1) From Ahhešâ of Uruk.

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

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Transliteration

1 ina ITI.ŠE IM.DUGUD iq-tur / KUR ⸢ár⸣-bu-tu DU-ak / [1*] dTIR.AN.NA ul-tu AN.PA / ana AN.ÚR GIL dIM NU RA-iṣ / 1 dTIR.AN.NA UGU URU GIL / URU LUGAL u NUN-MEŠ-šú šal-mu / šá mŠEŠ-MEŠ-šá-a LÚ.UNUG.KI-a.a

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 P238062.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238062). 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/P238062/.

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