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SAA 08 502. Planetary Omens, Prediction of Eclipses (RMA 272) [eclipses]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If in Marchesvan (VIII) Adad thunders, the day [becomes cloudy, it rains], a rainbow stretches, lightning [flashes: a famous important person will fall]. (3) The lord of kings must not say as follows: "[When a sign] came, [why] did you not write?" — (5) [I wrote a report], but when I gave it to the eunuchs, they did not [...] me. (6) "A famous important person," as it says, [does] not [apply to them; it] ... against someone else. (7) If (the stars) Šarur and Šargaz of the sting of Scorpius gain radiance: the weapons of Akkad will attack. The sting of Scorpius is the great lord Pabilsag.…
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P238776/
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Transliteration
1 ina ITI.APIN dIM GÙ-šú ŠUB-di-ma UD-mu [ŠÚ-up AN ŠUR] / dTIR.AN.NA GIL NIM.⸢GÍR⸣ [ib-riq IDIM SIG-ú ŠUB-ut] / EN LUGAL-MEŠ la i-qab-bi um-ma [x x x x x x it-tu ki-i] / tal-li-ka la taš-pu-ra ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x x] ma? / a-na LÚ.SAG-MEŠ ki-i ad-di-nu ⸢ul⸣ [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ḫa x in-ni / LÚ kab-tu e-du-ú šá iq-bu-ú ⸢ul⸣ [x x x x x] a-na UGU-ḫi mam-ma šá-nam-ma x / 1 dŠÁR.UR₄ u dŠÁR.GAZ šá MUL.zi-qit…
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 P238776.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238776). 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/P238776/.
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