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SAA 08 369. Morning First of Jupiter in Sagittarius (RMA 190) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If Jupiter becomes visible in Marchesvan (VIII): one king will send hostile messages to another. (3) If Jupiter stands in the mišhu of Sagittarius: there will be killings in the land. (5) If the same star comes close to Indubanna: business will diminish. (r 1) Indubanna is the mišhu of Sagittarius. (r 3) From Nabû-šuma-iškun.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237302/
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Transliteration
1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ina ITI.APIN IGI / LUGAL ana LUGAL zi-ra-a-ti KIN / 1 MUL.SAG.ME.GAR ina mi-šiḫ dPA.BIL.SAG GUB / šag-ga-šá-a-ti ina KUR GÁL-ME / 1 MUL.MIN ana MUL.IN.DUB.AN.NA TE / KI.LAM TUR / MUL.IN.DUB.AN.NA / mi-šiḫ dPA.BIL.SAG / šá mdPA—MU—GAR-un
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 P237302.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237302). 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/P237302/.
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