Position in chronology
SAA 08 237. Birth Omens and Others (CT 28 037) [terrestrial]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If a cow gives birth to three (young): the mind of the land will change. (2) If a cow gives birth to three (young), and 2 are male, 1 female: severity (of cold in that) year; the harvest will not prosper. (4) If a falcon hunts in a man's house: there will be deaths in the man's house. (6) [If] a falcon hunts and [another] falcon takes it away: [the e]nemy will plunder and put [......]. (Break) (r 1) [If a snake] hangs down [from ... of the ent]rance and cuts off the way to a [man's] house: this house will have a protective deity. (r 4) I searched in the tablet about snakes; this (omen) is pertinent.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336148/
Why it matters
Transliteration
BE ÁB 03 Ù.TU UMUŠ KUR MÌN-ni / BE ÁB 03 Ù.TU-ma 02 NITA 01 MÍ / da-na-an MU.AN.NA BURU₁₄ NU SI.SÁ / 1 ŠÚR.DÙ.MUŠEN ina É NA bu-ʾu-u-ra DÙ-uš / BA.ÚŠ ina É NA ÚŠ / [1] ŠÚR.DÙ.MUŠEN bu-ʾu-u-ra DÙ-ma / [x] ŠÚR.DÙ.MUŠEN e-kim-šú / [LÚ].KÚR ḫu-ub-tú i-ḫab-bat-ma / [x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ GAR-an / [1 MUŠ TA x x né]-⸢re?⸣-bi BI uš-qa-⸢li⸣-lam-ma / ⸢A.RÁ É⸣ [NA?] ip-ru-us / É BI DINGIR TUK-ši / ina DUB-pi ša MUŠ ub-ta-ʾi-i / an-ni-u šu-u ina UGU-ḫi qur-bu
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 P336148.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336148). 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/P336148/.
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