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SAA 08 482. Cancer in Lunar Halo (RMA 113) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If the moon] is surrounded by a halo, and two stars stand in the halo with the moon: a reign of long days. (4) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Cancer stands in it: the king of Akkad will ext[end] the life. (6) [From] Nabû-[ahhe]-i[ddin].
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P238111/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1 d30] TÙR NIGIN-ma 02 ⸢MUL⸣-[MEŠ] / ina TÙR KI d30 GUB-zu / BALA UD-MEŠ-šú GÍD.DA-MEŠ / 1 d30 TÙR NIGIN-ma MUL.AL.LUL / ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-zu LUGAL URI.KI DIN ur-[rak] / [šá md]PA—[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 P238111.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238111). 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/P238111/.
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