Position in chronology
SAA 08 502. Planetary Omens, Prediction of Eclipses (RMA 272) [eclipses]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(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.…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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: 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/P238776/..
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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