SAA 08 539. Sighting of Venus in Šebat (RMA 211D) [planetary]

~670 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P237345

Translation — scholar edition

SAA 8

High confidence

(1) If Venus [becomes visible] in [Shebat (XI)]: the harvest of the land will pr[osper ...]. (3) If Venus [...] in [Shebat (XI)]: the people of the land [......]. (Rest destroyed)

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

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Transliteration

1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.[ZÍZ IGI-ir] / BURU₁₄ KUR ⸢SI⸣.[SÁ x x x x] / 1 MUL.dil-bat ina ⸢ITI⸣.[ZÍZ x x] / UN-MEŠ KUR ⸢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 P237345.

Attribution

Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P237345). 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/P237345/.

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