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SAA 08 041. Mars, Saturn and Regulus in Lunar Halo (RMA 098) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon is surrounded by a black halo: the month holds rain, variant: clouds will be gathered. (4) — Saturn stands in the halo of the moon. (5) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Mars stands in it: loss of cattle; the Westland will become smaller. (8) That is bad for the Westland. (r 1) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Regulus stands in it: in that year pregnant women [wil]l give birth to male children. (r 4) — Re[gulus] stands in the halo of the moon. (r 5) [From Nabû]-ahhe-eriba.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
1 d30 TÙR GI₆ NIGIN o* / ITI A.AN ú-kal KI.MIN IM.DIRI-[MEŠ] / uk-ta-ṣa-ra / MUL.UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ ina TÙR d30 i-za-az-ma / 1 d30 TÙR NIGIN-ma MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu / ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz ZÁḪ MÁŠ.ANŠE / KUR—MAR.TU.KI TUR-ir / lum-nu šá KUR a-mur-re-e šu-u / 1 d30 TÙR NIGIN-ma MUL.LUGAL / ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz ina MU BI MÍ.PEŠ₄-MEŠ / NITA-⸢MEŠ⸣ [Ù].TU-MEŠ / MUL.[LUGAL ina] TÙR 30 GUB-ma / [ša mdPA]—PAB-MEŠ—SU
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 P336425.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336425). 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/P336425/.
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