Position in chronology
SAA 08 536. Last Visibility of Venus in Pleiades (RMA 205A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If Venus] se[ts] in Nisan (I): the harvest of the land will happen, variant: will pr[osper]. (3) If the Frond star reaches the Pleiades: [Adad will devastate. —] Venus [stands] in the Pleiades. (5) If Venus [is risen] in winter in the [East], at harvest time [in the We]st: (Break) (r 1) [...] ... [......] ... of the king my lord [......] before me, [......] when I swore an oath [......] is good so I did not write to the king my lord. (r 6) [From ...]a, son of Bel-ušallim.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[1] ⸢MUL⸣.[dil-bat ina] ITI.BARAG ir-[bi] / BURU₁₄ KUR GÁL-ši : ⸢SI⸣.[SÁ] / 1 MUL.A.EDIN MUL.MUL KUR-ud d[IM RA] / MUL.dil-bat ina ŠÀ MUL.MUL [GUB-ma] / 1 MUL.dil-bat ina EN.TE.NA ina* [dUTU.È] / ina BURU₁₄ [ina dUTU].ŠÚ.A* [nap-ḫat] / [x x] ud ad [x x x x x x] / [x x x] e-du ša LUGAL EN-ia [x x x x] / [x x ina pa]-na-tu-ú-a ši-[x x x x] / [x x x x] ana ŠÀ a-de-e ki-i e-⸢ru⸣-bu / [x x x] ⸢ṭa⸣-a-bi-ma a-na LUGAL EN-ia ul áš-pu-ra / [ša mx x x]-a DUMU mdEN—ú-šal-lim
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 P238047.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238047). 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/P238047/.
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