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SAA 08 477. Heliacal Rising of Mercury in Cancer (RMA 163) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If] on the 15th day the moon and sun are seen together: a strong enemy will raise his weapons against the land; the enemy will tear down my city gate. (4) If a planet becomes visible [in Ta]mmuz (IV): there will be deaths. (6) If Cancer is dark: the ghost of a wronged person will seize the land, and there will be deaths in the land. (r 2) From Nabû-ahhe-iddin.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237321/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1] UD 15-KÁM 30 ù dUTU KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ / LÚ.KÚR dan-nu GIŠ.TUKUL-MEŠ-šú ana KUR ÍL-a / KÁ.GAL URU-ia LÚ.KÚR i-na-qar / 1 MUL.UDU.IDIM [ina] ⸢ITI⸣.ŠU IGI-ir / NAM.ÚŠ-MEŠ GÁL-MEŠ / 1 MUL.AL.LUL a-dir / UDUG ḫab-lim KUR DIB-bat-ma / NAM.ÚŠ-MEŠ ina KUR GÁL-MEŠ / šá mdAG—ŠEŠ-MEŠ—SUM.NA
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 P237321.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237321). 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/P237321/.
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