SAA 08 246. Predicting Morning First of Venus in Leo (RMA 208) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P237074

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(1) Venus disappeared in the west. (2) If Venus in Ab (V) descends darkly to the horizon and sets: there will be a fall of Elam. (5) If Venus in Ab (V), from the 1st to the 30th day, disappears in the west: there will be rains; the harvest of the land will prosper. (r 2) During this month (Venus) will become visible in the east in Leo. (r 4) From Nergal-eṭir.

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

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Transliteration

1 MUL.dil-bat ina dUTU.ŠÚ.A TÙM / 1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.NE ad-riš / uš-⸢tak-ti⸣-it-ma ir-bi / ŠUB-tim NIM.MA.KI GÁL-ši / 1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.NE TA UD 01-KAM / EN UD 30-KÁM ina dUTU.ŠÚ.A TÙM / A.AN-MEŠ GÁL-MEŠ / BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ / ina ŠÀ ITI a-ga-a ina dUTU.È / ina ŠÀ MUL.UR.GU.LA in-nam-mar / šá mdU.GUR—KAR-ir

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 P237074.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237074). 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/P237074/.

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