Position in chronology
SAA 08 349. Venus Sighted in Sivan (RMA 207A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(Beginning destroyed) (1) If Venus [becomes visible] in Sivan (III): [fall of the enemy]. (2) If Venus [is risen] in winter [in the east], at harvest time in [the west]: enemy kings [will be reconciled]; the harvest of the land will prosper; [the land will eat] good bread; reconciliation and peace will take place everywhere. (r 2) [If Venus becomes visible] in the path of the Enl[il stars: the king of Akkad will get no] rival; [...] ... [......]. (Rest destroyed)
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
⸢1⸣ d⸢dil-bat ina ITI⸣.SIG₄ [IGI ŠUB-tim LÚ.KÚR] / 1 ddil-bat ina EN.TE.[NA ina dUTU.È.A] / ina BURU₁₄ ina d[UTU.ŠÚ.A nap-ḫat] / LUGAL-MEŠ KÚR-MEŠ [SILIM-MEŠ] / BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ [KUR] / NINDA-ḪI.A DÙG.GA [KÚ] / taš-mu-ú u SILIM-mu ka-liš GAR-an / [1 ddil]-⸢bat⸣ ina KASKAL šu-[ut d]⸢EN⸣.LÍL IGI-ir / [LUGAL URI].KI ⸢GABA⸣.[RI NU TUK]-⸢ši⸣ / [x x DU]-ak [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 P237953.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237953). 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/P237953/.
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