SAA 08 398. Jupiter in Lunar Halo (RMA 096B) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P238050

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(1) [If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Ju]piter stands in it: [the king of Akkad] will be shut up. (3) [If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Šulpa]e stands in it: [the king] of the Westland [will exercise world dominion], and will bring about [a defeat of his enemy's land ......] ... [...] will take [...]. (r 3) [From Raš]il the older, servant of the king.

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

Spotted an error? Suggest a correction — confirmed corrections feed the engine's knowledge base.

Transliteration

[1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma MUL.SAG].ME.GAR ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz / [LUGAL KUR—URI.KI ú]-ta-sar / [1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma MUL.ŠUL.PA].È ina ŠÀ-šú GUB / [LUGAL] MAR.TU.KI / [kiš-šu-tú DÙ]-ma / [ŠI.ŠI KUR KÚR-šú] GAR / [x x x x x x x] / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣-si / [x x x x].KI TI-qí / [šá mTUK-ši]—DINGIR ARAD šá LUGAL IGI-u

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 P238050.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P238050). 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/P238050/.

Related tablets

Related sources

~1800 BCE

Plimpton 322

Whatever its purpose, this single tablet shows that Babylonian mathematicians, working in base-60, had an arithmetic understanding of right triangles a millennium before Pythagoras was born.

~650 BCE

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI (the Flood)

A major witness to the Mesopotamian Flood tradition and its relationship to later biblical literature. The date of this particular copy must be distinguished from the older history of the story.

~2300 BCE

Disk of Enheduanna

An object naming and depicting a powerful priestess and royal daughter around 2300 BCE. Enheduanna is also a landmark in named literary authorship, but that literary legacy must be distinguished from this disk’s dedication.