SAA 08 537. Sighting of Venus (RMA 211C) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238124

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(1) [If] Venus [disappears] in [Nisan (I): there will be] wailings [in the land]. (3) [If] Venus [becomes visible] inside [the Field star: there will be] rain from the sky, flood [from the springs; the harvest] of the Westl[and will prosper]. (Rest destroyed)

State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[1] MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.[BARAG it-bal] / ú-ru-ba-a-tum [ina KUR GÁL-ME] / [1] MUL.dil-bat ina ŠÀ MUL.[AŠ.GÁN IGI] / A.AN ina AN-e A.⸢KAL⸣ [ina IDIM GÁL-ši] / [BURU₁₄] KUR—MAR.⸢TU⸣.[KI SI.SÁ]

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 P238124.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238124). 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/P238124/.

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