SAA 08 540. (no title) (RMA 211E) [unclassifiable]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P237428

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(1) If Venus in month [......] sets early... [...... there will be pea]ce in [the land ......]. (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

1 ddil-bat ina ITI.[x x x x x] / [x] ⸢NIM?-ma?⸣ ŠÚ-bi? ⸢x⸣+[x x x x] / ⸢SILIM⸣-mu ina [KUR GÁL-ši] / 1 [x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x]

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 P237428.

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/P237428/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237428/.

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