SAA 08 538. Sighting of Venus in Pisces (RMA 211B) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238723

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(1) [If Venus] becomes visible [in Sheba]t (XI): [the harvest of the land] will prosper. (3) [If the Worm] star is very massive: there will be [mercy and] peace in the land. — [Venus stand]s in Anunitu. (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

[1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI].⸢ZÍZ⸣ IGI-ir / [BURU₁₄ KUR] SI.SÁ / [1 MUL.tul]-⸢tum⸣ gup-pu-šat / [re-e-mu u] sa-li-mu ina KUR GÁL-ši / [MUL.dil]-⸢bat⸣ ina ŠÀ MUL.an-nu-ni-tum / [iz-za-az]-ma

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 P238723.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238723). 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/P238723/.

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