Position in chronology
SAA 08 507. (no title) (RMA 056+) [unclassifiable]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon [becomes visible] on the 1st day: reliable speech; the land will become happy. (2) If the moon at [its] appea[rance] makes [...], and its dwelling is devastated: there will be [......], and [the son] will speak the [truth with his father]. (5) If [......]: the king of the Westland will rule the world. (6) If there exists in [......] stars: [......] will seek the moon. (8) If [......] (erased) (r 1) If in Iyyar (II) the Pleiades, the Seven Gods, the great gods, rise at their appropriate time: the great gods will gather and make a favorable decision about the land. (r 5) In Iyyar (II) on the 1st day [the Breast of the Panther stands] in the middle of the sky opposite [your breast, and] the Pleiad[es ri]se.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 30 UD 01-KÁM [IGI] ⸢KA⸣ GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab / 1 30 ina ⸢IGI.LAL⸣-[šú x x x] DÙ-uš-ma u KI.TUŠ-su ra-aḫ-ṣa-⸢at⸣ / [x x x x x x] DI-mi GÁL-ma / [DUMU KI AD-šú kit]-⸢tú*⸣ i-ta-mi / 1 [x x x x x x] LUGAL MAR.TU ŠÚ-tú EN-el / 1 ina [x x x x x x] MUL-MEŠ it-tab-ši / KI? [x x x x x] DU.DU d30 Ì.KIN.GÁ / 1 (erased) / 1 ina ITI.[GUD] ⸢MUL⸣.MUL d07.BI DINGIR-MEŠ GAL-MEŠ / šum-ma ina [a]-dan-ni-šú-nu…
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 P336393.
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/P336393/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336393/.
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