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SAA 08 529. Pleiades in Lunar Halo (RMA 115A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) (If) the moon is surrounded by a halo, and [...] the Pleiades st[and] in it [...]. (3) If ditto, and the Pleiades [stand in it: women] will give birth to male children; [the king's land will defect from him], reduction [of grain ...]. (6) If [2] star[s stand] inside the halo the halo [with the moon]: a reign of [long] days. (r 1) If the moon is surrounded by a white halo: ... [...]. (r 2) If the moon is surrounded by a (black)? halo: the month [holds rain; clouds] will be gathered [...]. (r 4) From [NN].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma [x x x x] / MUL.MUL ina ŠÀ-šú ⸢GUB⸣-[ma x x x] / 1 KI.MIN-ma MUL.MUL [ina ŠÀ-šu GUB MÍ-ME] / NITA-ME Ù.TU-ME [LUGAL KUR-su KÚR-šú] / nu-šur-re-[e ŠE-im x x x x] / 1 ina ŠÀ TÙR [02] MUL-[ME KI 30 GUB-ME] / BALA UD-ME [GÍD.DA-ME] / 1 30 TÙR BABBAR NÍGIN UD? [x x] / 1 30 TÙR <GI₆?> NÍGIN ITI [A.AN ú-kal IM.DIRI-MEŠ] / uk-taṣ-ṣa-ra [x x x] / šá m[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 P237308.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237308). 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/P237308/.
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