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SAA 08 398. Jupiter in Lunar Halo (RMA 096B) [planetary]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Ju]piter stands in it: [the king of Akkad] will be shut up. (3) [If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Šulpa]e stands in it: [the king] of the Westland [will exercise world dominion], and will bring about [a defeat of his enemy's land ......] ... [...] will take [...]. (r 3) [From Raš]il the older, servant of the king.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P238050/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma MUL.SAG].ME.GAR ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz / [LUGAL KUR—URI.KI ú]-ta-sar / [1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma MUL.ŠUL.PA].È ina ŠÀ-šú GUB / [LUGAL] MAR.TU.KI / [kiš-šu-tú DÙ]-ma / [ŠI.ŠI KUR KÚR-šú] GAR / [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣-si / [x x x x].KI TI-qí / [šá mTUK-ši]—DINGIR ARAD šá LUGAL IGI-u
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 P238050.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238050). 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/P238050/.
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