Position in chronology
SAA 10 362. Morning First of Jupiter in Sivan (ACh 2 S 62) [miscellaneous]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning lost) (2) [... did not ap]pear, and the day [...]. (3) [Last year], it became visible on the 22nd of Iyyar (II) in the constellation [Perseus]; it disappeared in Nisan (I) of the [present] year, on the 29th day. (5) Jupiter [may remain invisible] from 20 to 30 days; now it kept itself back from the sky for 35 days. It appeared on the 6th of Sivan (III) in the area of Orion, exceeding its term by 5 days. The relevant interpretation is as follows: (10) If Jupiter appears in Sivan: destruction of the land will be brought about, barley will become expensive. (12) If Jupiter approaches…
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334933/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[x x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣ [x x x x x x x] / [x x la in]-⸢na⸣-mir ù UD-mu ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x] / [šad-daq-diš] UD 22-KÁM ša ITI.GUD ina ŠÀ ⸢MUL⸣.[ŠU.GI] / ⸢it-ta⸣-mar ina ITI.BARAG ša MU.AN.⸢NA⸣ [an-ni-ti] / UD 29-KÁM it-ta-bal MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ⸢x⸣+[x x x] / šúm-ma a-na 20 UD-MEŠ šúm-ma a-na 30 UD-⸢MEŠ⸣ [x x x] / ú-ma-a 01 ITI 05 UD-MEŠ ina AN-e ú-tu-ḫi-⸢ir⸣ / UD 06-KÁM ša ITI.SIG₄ ina kaq-qar…
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P334933.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P334933). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P334933/.
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