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SAA 08 205. Jupiter and Regulus in Lunar Halo (RMA 096A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon [is surrounded] by a halo and Jupiter [stands] in [it]: the king of Akkad will be sh[ut up]. (4) If the moon is surrou[nded] by a halo, and Regulus [stands] in it: in this year women [will give birth to male children]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
1 30 TÙR [NIGIN-ma] / dSAG.ME.GAR ina [ŠÀ-šú GUB] / LUGAL URI.KI ú-⸢tas⸣-[sar] / 1 30 TÙR ⸢NIGIN⸣-[ma] / MUL.LUGAL ina ŠÀ-[šú GUB] / ina MU BI MÍ-MEŠ ⸢NITA⸣-[MEŠ Ù.TU-MEŠ]
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 P336423.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336423). 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/P336423/.
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