SAA 08 335. Two Meteors (RMA 202) [occasional]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P237287

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(1) [If] a meteor flashes from eas[t] to west and sets, and interrupts its train and puts it (again): the enemy's troops will fall in battle. (5) If a star which is like a torch, i.e. like a reed torch, flashes from east to west and sets: the main army of the enemy will fall. (r 1) Two meteors flashed in the middle watch after each other. (r 5) From Ašaredu the older.

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

Transliteration

[1] MUL—GAL TA dUTU.È.[A] / a-na dUTU.ŠÚ.A SUR-ma ŠÚ-bi / u mi-šiḫ-šú ú-mar-ri-ma GAR / ERIM-ni KÚR ina MÈ ŠUB-ut / 1 MUL šá GIM IZI.GAR / : GIM GI.IZI.LÁ / TA dUTU.È ana dUTU.ŠÚ.A / SUR-ma ŠÚ-bi ERIM LÚ.KÚR / ina DUGUD-šú ŠUB-ut / 02 MUL—GAL-MEŠ / ina EN.NUN—MURUB₄.BA / EGIR a-ḫa-meš / iṣ-ṣar-ru / šá ma-šá-ri-du / IGI-ú

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 P237287.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237287). 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/P237287/.

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