Position in chronology
SAA 08 309. Red Sky (RMA 267A) [occasional]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the sky is covered with red: there will be abundance in the land. (2) Ṣillaya wrote to me by way of Šakin-šumi as follows: "I shall put you to death! Why do you say: 'Ṣillaya took away my property'? Munnabitu is witness against you" — (7) (I swear) by Bel [...] the witness is my adversary! Whatever he took away from my property is well known! (r 2) Everything about which I spoke in front of the king, and there is (some) about what I did not speak to the king, everything he took. He has removed my father's house from my hands, and continually he devises tricks and plots against my life. May the king my lord not abandon me! (r 8) From Zakir.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
1 AN-e SA₅ ma-ḫi-iṣ ḪÉ.GÁL ina KUR GÁL-ši / mṣil-la-a ina ŠU.2 mGAR—MU il-tap-ra / um-ma ana mi-tu-tu a-na-ad-di-ka / um-ma mi-nam-ma ta-qab-bi um-ma / mṣil-la-a NÍG.ŠID-ia it-ta-ši / um-ma mmun-na-bit-tum LÚ.mu-kin-ni-ka / u d⸢EN x x⸣ LÚ.EN—di-ni-ía LÚ.mu-kin-nu / mi-nu-ú ina ŠÀ NÍG.ŠID-ía ma-la / iš-šú-ú ki-i la me-du-ú / mim-ma ma-la ina pa-an LUGAL ad-bu-bu / u i-ba-áš-ši šá a-na LUGAL la…
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 P236907.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P236907). 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/P236907/.
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