Position in chronology
SAA 08 313. Fog in Tebet (RMA 251A) [weather]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If a fog] rolls in [in Tebet (X)]: eclipse [of all lands]. (2) [If there is fog in the land]: plenty for the people. (3) [If there is continually fog in the land]: the dynasty of the land will achieve world rule. (4) [...] ... is not reaching its course; [......] spoke, his lawsuit will not go well; [......] kept doing, his lawsuit will not [......] ... punishment of a god [......] look at me [......]. (r 2) [......] city god [...] (Break) (r 3) [......] ... [......] (r 4) [From] Zakir.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P236994/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1 ina ITI.AB IM.DUGUD] iq-tur AN.MI [KUR.KUR] / [1 ina KUR IM.DUGUD GÁL] nu-ḫuš UN-ME / [1 ina KUR IM.DUGUD sa]-⸢dir⸣ BALA KUR kiš-šú-tú i-kaš-šad / [x x x] IDIM ḫar-ra-an-šú ul ka-ši-[id] / [x x x] id-bu-ub di-in-šú ul SI.⸢SÁ⸣ / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ ú-še-eb-ru di-in-šú ul ⸢x⸣+[x x] / [x x x x]-pu-uš en-né-et DINGIR / [x x x x] id ḪU UD nap-lu-us-an-ni / [x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x x x] ḫu [x x x] / [x x x x x x x x] DINGIR URU [x x x] / [x x x x x x] É [x x x x x x] / [šá m]za-kir
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 P236994.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P236994). 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/P236994/.
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