Position in chronology
SAA 08 302. Saturn, Regulus, and Orion in Lunar Halo [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If Venus ... from] the 1st to the 30th day [......]. (Break) (2) Venus [...] days [......] did not reach and set [......] of Elam. Signs in the east [......] Venus is the star of Elam; in the east [...]. (r 3) If the sun is surrounded by a halo: it will rain; change of weather. (r 4) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Orion stands in it: the king of Subartu will exercise world rule; his land will thri[ve]. (r 6) [If the sun] stands [in] the halo of the moon: all lands will speak the truth; [the son] will speak the truth with his father. (r 8) [If the moon] is surrounded [by a halo], and Regulus stands in it: women [will give bir]th to male children. (r 10) From Zakir.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[1 MUL.dil-bat x x TA] UD 01-KÁM EN UD 30-KAM / [MUL].dil-bat UD-ME [x x x x] / [x] ul ik-šu-da u ir-ta-bi [x x x] / šá KUR.NIM.KI GISKIM-ME dUTU.⸢È?⸣ [x x x x] / MUL.dil-bat MUL KUR.NIM.KI ina dUTU.⸢È⸣ [x x x] / 1 20 TÙR NÍGIN A.AN ŠUR-nun MÌN-e UD-mi / 1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma MUL.SIPA.ZI.AN.NA ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-[iz] / LUGAL SU.KI kiš-šú-tú DÙ-uš KUR-su i-na-aḫ-ḫi-[iš] / [1 20 ina] TÙR 30 GUB KUR DÙ.A.BI…
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 P237547.
Attribution
Image: BM 099026 (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237547). 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/P237547/.
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