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SAA 08 494. Cancer and Regulus in Lunar Halo (RMA 117) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon is surrounded by a sheepfold: that land will expand; dispersed people will gather. (3) If it is surrounded, and Cancer stands in it: the king of Akkad will extend the life. (5) If Regulus stands in it: women will give birth to male children. (7) If the moon is surrounded by a sheepfold and lingers on: giving of the reign to the king. (9) I.e., it is surrounded by a large halo. It stood there for much of the night and did not dissolve. (r 3) From Šapiku of Borsippa.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237795/
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Transliteration
1 30 AMAŠ NIGIN KUR BI DAGAL-eš / UN-MEŠ BIR-MEŠ NIGIN-MEŠ / 1 NIGIN-ma MUL.AL.LUL ina ŠÀ-šú GUB / LUGAL URI.KI TI.LA ur-rak / 1 MUL.LUGAL ina ŠÀ-šú GUB / MÍ-MEŠ NITA-MEŠ Ù.TU-MEŠ / 1 30 AMAŠ NIGIN-ma id-lip / na-da-nu pa-le-e ana LUGAL / šá TÙR ra-bu-ú NIGIN-ma / mu-ši ma-a-du iz-zi-zu-ma / la ip-ṭu-ru / šá mšá-pi-ku DUMU BÁR.SIPA.KI
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 P237795.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237795). 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/P237795/.
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