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SAA 08 002. Venus and Mercury Setting (RMA 109) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) This night the moon was surrounded by a halo in Scorpius, (that is a sign) for rain [and] flood. (3) Venus (and) Mercury are about to set. (4) [......] contains (5) [......] cloud (6) [......] he will see (8) [......] Kalizi (9) [......]... (r 1) Let them [decide] about the orders and write us. (r 4) The scribe [...-nap]ištu-iddin will come [on the xth] day. [I se]nt Nabû-mušeṣi, the scribe of the temple, [as the k]ing my lord said; he is bringing the former ... (r.e. 9) From the Chief Scribe.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336432/
Why it matters
Transliteration
30 MI an-ni-ú ina ŠÀ-bi MUL.GÍR.TAB / TÙR-ma NIGIN-ma a-na ⸢A.AN⸣ [u] A.KAL / ddil-bat dGUD.UD a-na ru-ú-bi il-lu-ku / [x x x x]-a-ti i-na ŠÀ-bi ú-kal / [x x x x x x x x] ⸢IM⸣.DIRI / [x x x x x x x x] e-mar / [x x x x x x x x]-MEŠ / [x x x x x x x] ⸢URU⸣.kàl-zi / [x x x x x x x] x / [x x x x x x x x]-tu-ni / [x x x x x mi-i]-nu šá ṭè-mu-ni / [lip-ru-su] liš-pa-ru-ú-ni / [mx]—⸢ZI⸣—AŠ LÚ.A.BA-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 P336432.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336432). 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/P336432/.
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