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SAA 08 100. Occultation of Jupiter (RMA 192) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If Jupiter stands inside the moon: in this year the king will die; variant: there will be an eclipse of the moon and sun; a great king will die. (4) If Jupiter enters the moon: there will be famine in the Westland; the king of Elam will fall in battle; in Subartu a noble will revolt against his lord. (r 1) If Jupiter enters the moon: business of the land will diminish. (r 3) If Jupiter comes out to the back of the moon: there will be hostility in the land.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336496/
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Transliteration
1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ina ŠÀ 30 GUB-iz / ina MU BI LUGAL ÚŠ : AN.MI 30 u 20 GAR-an / LUGAL GAL ÚŠ / 1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ina ŠÀ d30 TU / su-un-qu ina KUR—MAR.TU.KI GÁL-ši / LUGAL NIM.MA.KI ina GIŠ.TUKUL ŠUB-ut / ina KUR.SU.BIR₄.KI IDIM EN-šú ḪI.GAR / 1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ana ŠÀ 30 TU-ub / KI.LAM KUR TUR-ir / 1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ana ku-tal 30 È / nu-kúr-ti ina KUR GÁL-ši
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 P336496.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336496). 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/P336496/.
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