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SAA 08 504. Evening First of Mercury In Scorpius (RMA 223) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If a planet rises in Marchesvan (VIII): the harvest of the land will prosper. (3) If Scorpius is black: therein will be reconciliation in the land. — Mercury stands in Scorpius. (5) If the bre[ast] of Scorpius, the goddess Išhara, at the renewing of her light is bright, her tail dark, her horns opposing each other: rain and flood will be early in the land; locusts will attack and devour the land; fall of cattle and shepherds' huts; [an enemy land ...] will be conquered. (r 4) [If ......] Scorpius [......]. (Rest destroyed)
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P236971/
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Transliteration
1 ina ITI.APIN MUL.UDU.IDIM KUR-ḫa / BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ / 1 MUL.GÍR.TAB GI₆ ina ŠÀ-bi taš-mu-ú ina KUR Ì.GÁL / dGUD.UD ina ŠÀ MUL.GÍR.TAB GUB-ma / 1 MUL.GÍR.TAB diš-ḫa-ra ina GIBIL UD.DA-šá / ⸢GABA⸣-sà nam-rat KUN-sà e-ṭa-at / SI-ME-šá* nin-mu-ra / A.AN u A.KAL ina KUR i-ḫar-ru-pu / BURU₅-ḪI.A ZI-ma KUR KÚ / ŠUB-tim GUD-ME u gu-ub-ri / [KUR KÚR x]+⸢x⸣ ik-kaš-šad / [1 x x x x] ⸢MUL⸣.GÍR.TAB / [x 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 P236971.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P236971). 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/P236971/.
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