Position in chronology
SAA 10 152. Rising of Aries (CT 53 945) [from astrologers]
Translation · reference
High confidence(Beginning lost) (1) [Concerning ... about which the king wrote]: "What (month) do you h[ave wh]en it became vis[ible]?" — [it appeared] in the month Adar (XII). And as to what was s[aid to the king]: "[It is visible] in the constellation Ar[ies]" — Aries will app[ear] in the east [either] tomorrow or the day af[ter tomorrow]. It is not Mercury. (Mercury) itself is visible [as evening star]. (Remainder lost)
Source: Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P314354/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[ina] É in-na-⸢mir*⸣-[u-ni] / mi-i-nu ⸢tú-ka⸣-[la] / ina ITI.ŠE [it-ta-mar] / ù ša iq-[bu-u-ni a-na LUGAL] / ⸢ma⸣-a ina MUL.LÚ.⸢ḪUN⸣.[GÁ IGI-mar] / ⸢MUL⸣.LÚ.ḪUN.GÁ [o] / [šúm-mu] ina ši-a-⸢ri⸣ / [šúm]-mu ina li-[di-iš] / ina dUTU.È in-⸢nam⸣-[mar] / la-a dGUD.UD [šu-ú-tú] / ù šu-⸢tú*⸣ [ina dUTU.ŠÚ.A] / in-nam-⸢mar*⸣ [x x x x] / ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x x]
Scholarly note
Letter from a scholar (astrologer, exorcist, physician, lamentation-priest) to Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal, edited by Simo Parpola (SAA 10, 1993). ORACC text P314354.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P314354). source
Translation excerpted from Parpola, S. 1993. Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars. SAA 10. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa10/P314354/.
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