Position in chronology
SAA 08 220. (no title) (RMA 277T) [unclassifiable]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(Beginning destroyed) (1) [......] ... [......] will rise. (3) [...... at its appea]rance haze [......] ...... (5) [If ...] head of Scorpius [......] ... business will ...; [......] will stand. (r 1) [...] his profit will become less; [...] of the head of Scorpius [......] its [sign] portends diminishing of business. (r 4) [... Ni]san (I) to the king my lord [...] Mercury as follows: the harvest will be good [......] Adad will devastate [......] ... (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x] a [x x x x] / [x x x] ⸢i⸣-te-eb-ba-a / [x x x ina IGI].LAL-šú ḫi-il-lu / [x x x x] AN šú ma / [1 x x] ⸢re⸣-eš MUL.GÍR.TAB / [x x x]+⸢x⸣ KI.LAM ⸢x⸣+[x] / [x x x x] i-za-za / [x x ne]-mì-il-šú i-ma-aṭ-ṭi / [x x x] ša SAG.DU MUL.GÍR.TAB / [x x GISKIM]-šú a-na ṣe-ḫe-er ma-ḫi-ri / [x x ITI].⸢BARAG⸣ a-na LUGAL EN-ia / [x x MUL.UDU].IDIM.GUD.UD ma-a BURU₁₄ ⸢SIG₅⸣ / [x x x d]IM RA-[iṣ] / [x x x x] ⸢x x x⸣
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 P336593.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336593). 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/P336593/.
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