Position in chronology
SAA 08 505. Mercury in Aries (RMA 044) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If the moon] becomes visible [on the 1st day: reliable speech]; the land will become happy. (3) [If the day] reaches its normal length: [a reign] of long days. (5) [If the moon's] horns at its appearance are very pointed: the king will knock down wherever he wants to subdue. (7) [If the m]oon's horns at its appearance are equal: for the land, peaceful dwelling. (r 1) [If the moon at] its [appe]arance wears a crown: the harvest of the land will prosper; [the king] will reach the highest rank. (r 3) [If the moon] becomes visible in Nisan (I) on the 1st day: the north [win]d will blow; the…
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P236920/
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Transliteration
[1 30 UD 01]-⸢KÁM⸣ IGI-ir / [KA GI].NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab / [1 UD ana] ⸢mi⸣-na-ti-šú GÍD.DA / [BALA] UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-MEŠ / [1 30 ina] IGI.LAL-šú SI-MEŠ-šú ud-du-da / LUGAL a-šar ú-sa-na-qu ú-nak-kap / [1] ⸢30⸣ ina IGI.LAL-šú SI-MEŠ-šú mit-ḫa-ra / [a]-na KUR šu-ub-tum ne-eḫ-tum / [1 30 ina IGI].LAL-šú AGA a-pir BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ / [LUGAL] ⸢SAG⸣.KAL-tú DU-ak / [1 30 ina ITI].BARAG ina UD 01-KÁM IGI-ir /…
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 P236920.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P236920). 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/P236920/.
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