SAA 08 221. Thunder in Adar (RMA 262) [weather]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P336562

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

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(1) If Adad thun[ders] on the day of disappearance of the moon: the harvest will prosper; business [will be steady]. (3) If Adad thunders on the day of disappearance of the moon: good for the harvest. (5) If Adad thunders in Adar (XII), the day becomes cloudy, it rains, lightning flas[hes]: much flooding [will come, and] the harvest [of the land will prosper]. (r 1) Fr[om NN].

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

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Transliteration

1 ina UD.NÁ.ÀM dIM GÙ-⸢šú⸣ [ŠUB-di] / BURU₁₄* SI.SÁ KI.LAM [GI.NA] / 1 ina UD.NÁ.ÀM dIM GÙ-šú ŠUB-[di] / SIG₅ BURU₁₄ / 1 ina ITI.ŠE dIM GÙ-šú ŠUB-di / UD ŠÚ AN ŠUR NIM.GÍR ib-[riq] / A.KAL ma-aʾ-⸢du⸣ [DU]-⸢kam⸣-[ma] / BURU₁₄ [KUR SI.SÁ] / ⸢ša⸣ [mx 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 P336562.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336562). 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/P336562/.

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