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SAA 08 416. Mars and Saturn in Lunar Halo (RMA 101A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If the moon] is surrounded by a halo, and [Ma]rs stands in it: [fa]ll of domestic and wild anim[als]. (4) [If] the moon is surrounded by a halo, and the sun stands in it: there will be truth [in the land; the son] will speak the tru[th] with his father. (r 1) — [Satu]rn stands [in the halo of] the moon. (r 3) [If the moon] is surrounded by a halo, and [two] stars s[tand] in the halo with the moon: a [rei]gn of long days. (r 6) [From] Nabû-iqbi [of] Cutha.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[1 30] TÙR NIGIN-ma / [MUL.ṣal-bat]-a-nu ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-[iz] / [ŠUB?]-tim bu-lum u nam-maš-[še-e] / [1] 30 TÙR NIGIN-ma / dUTU ina ŠÀ-šú GUB-iz / [ina KUR] kit-ti GÁL-ši / [DUMU] KI AD-šú kit-[ti] / [i]-ta-mu / [MUL.UDU.IDIM].SAG.UŠ [ina ŠÀ] / [TÙR] 30 GUB-ma / [1 30] TÙR NIGIN-ma / [02] MUL-MEŠ ina TÙR KI 30 ⸢GUB⸣-[MEŠ] / ⸢BALA⸣ UD-MEŠ GÍD.DA-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [šá] mdAG—iq-bi / [DUMU] GÚ.DU₈.A.KI
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 P237335.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237335). 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/P237335/.
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