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).
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: 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/P238047/..
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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