SAA 08 020. Cancer in Lunar Halo [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336653

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [If the moon is surrounded by a halo] and [two stars] stand in it: [a reign] of long [days]. (4) [If the moon] is surrounded by a halo, and [Ca]ncer stands in it: [the king] of Akkad will extend the life. (7) [Fr]om Issar-šumu-ereš.

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

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Transliteration

[1 30 TÙR NIGIN]-ma / [02 MUL-MEŠ ina] ŠÀ-šú ⸢GUB⸣ / [BALA UD-MEŠ] GÍD.DA-MEŠ / [1 30] TÙR NIGIN-ma / ⸢MUL⸣.AL.LUL ina ŠÀ-šú GUB / [LUGAL] ⸢URI.KI⸣ TI.LA ur-rak / ⸢ša⸣ m15—MU—KAM-eš

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 P336653.

Attribution

Image: BM 099236 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336653). 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/P336653/.

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