Position in chronology
SAA 08 454. Mercury Sighted in Pleiades (RMA 218) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If a planet becomes visible in Iyyar (II): the flood will come and irrigate the fields. (3) If the star of Marduk reaches the Pleiades: Adad will devastate. (r 1) On the 14th day the moon and sun will not be seen together, on the 15th day one god will be seen with the other: the king of Subartu will have no rival. I have heard (that) [from the mou]th of my father. (r 7) [From] Bel-ahhe-eriba.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 ina ITI.GUD dUDU.IDIM IGI-ir / A.KAL DU-ma A.ŠÀ A.QAR i-ma-kir / 1 MUL—dAMAR.UTU MUL.MUL KUR-ud / dIM RA-iṣ / UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 KI a-ḫa-meš / ul in-nam-ma-ru / UD 15-KÁM DINGIR KI DINGIR in-nam-ma-ru / LUGAL SU.BIR₄.KI GABA.RI / NU TUK-ši / [ina pi]-i AD-ia še-ma-a-ku / [ša m]dEN—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—eri-ba
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 P236969.
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/P236969/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P236969/.
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