Position in chronology
SAA 08 337. Evening First of Mercury in Leo (RMA 219) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If] a planet rises in Tammuz (IV): there will be deaths. (3) If Leo is black: the land will become unhappy. (5) May the lord of kings be everlasting! (6) From Ašaredu.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336520/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1] d*UDU.IDIM ina ITI.ŠU KUR-ḫa / ÚŠ-MEŠ GÁL-MEŠ / 1 MUL.UR.GU.LA GI₆ / ŠÀ KUR NU DÙG-ab / EN LUGAL-MEŠ lu da-ri / šá ma-šá-ri-du
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 P336520.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336520). 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/P336520/.
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