Position in chronology
SAA 08 503. Evening First of Mercury In Taurus (RMA 184) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the star of Marduk becomes visible at the beginning of the year: that year his furrow will prosper. — Mercury becomes visible in Nisan (I). (4) If a planet comes close to Aldebaran: the king of Elam will die. (6) If a strange star comes close to Enmešarra: people will spread; the land will become happy. (r 1) Mercury became visible in Taurus, it reached the Old Man. (r 4) If [a planet] becomes visible [in ...: rain]s and floods. (r 6) From [......].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 MUL—dAMAR.UTU ina SAG MU IGI-ir / MU BI AB.SÍN-šú SI.SÁ / MUL.UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD ina ITI.BARAG IGI-ma / 1 MUL.bi-ib-bu ana MUL.is—le-e TE / LUGAL NIM.MA.KI ÚŠ / 1 MUL.MÌN-ma ana MUL.EN.ME.ŠÁR.RA TE / UN-MEŠ DAGAL-MEŠ ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab / MUL.UDU.IDIM.GUD.UD ina ŠÀ-bi MUL.GUD.AN.NA / [it]-tan-mar a-di MUL.ŠU.GI / [ik]-tal-du / 1 [MUL.UDU.IDIM ina x]+⸢x⸣ in-nam-mar / [A.AN]-MEŠ u A.KAL-MEŠ / šá m[x x x x x x]
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 P237873.
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/P237873/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237873/.
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