SAA 08 143. Morning First of Mars in Tammuz (RMA 244D) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336541

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(1) [...] reached Aries. (2) [If ......] is faint, [......] will experience sorrow. (3) [This word] is not [in the Series], it is extraneous. [When ......] is faint [......], it will be cited. (r 1) [If] the red [planet] is bright: your [hand] will catch [...]. (r 3) [If in Tammuz (IV) Adad th]unders: the harvest of the land will prosper. (r 4) [If Mars becomes visible in Tammuz (IV)]: the cemetery of warriors will enlarge. (r 5) [From Nab]û-mušeṣi.

State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).

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Transliteration

[MUL.x x x] MUL.LÚ.ḪUN.GÁ ik-ta-šad / [1 MUL.x x x x] un-nu-ut / [x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ i-dir-tú IGI.LAL / [x x x x x x] la-áš-šú a-ḫi-ú šu-ú / [ki-i x x x x] un-nu-tú-ni / [x x x x x]-u-ni i-na-sa-ḫa / [1 MUL.UDU.IDIM] SA₅ ba-il / [x x x ŠU.2]-⸢ka⸣ i-ka-áš-šá-ad / [1 ina ITI.ŠU dIM] ⸢GÙ⸣-šú ŠUB BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ / [1 ina ITI.ŠU dṣal-bat-a-nu IGI] ⸢KI⸣.NÁ qu-ra-di DAGAL-iš / [ša md]⸢PA⸣—mu-še-ṣi

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 P336541.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336541). 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/P336541/.

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