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~675 BCE·

Neo-Assyrian

RINAP 4

Esarhaddon 118 / CDLI Seals 006507

(Inscription_A 1) Property of the god Marduk, <<...>> seal of the god Adad of Esagil. (Inscription_B 1) To the god Marduk, great lord, his lord: Esarhaddon, king of the world, king of Assyria, presented (this object) for the sake of his life.

Economy

~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 08 001. Thunder in Ab, King Ill (RMA 257) [weather]

1. In the month of Ab (month V), Adad raised his voice: the sky was darkened, the heaven rained down, lightning flashed, / waters were withheld in the spring(s). / 1. When Adad cried out on a cloudless day, / it is the 'daummattu'-omen: ditto. Famine will be in the land. / Regarding the unfavorable body[-omen]: / the king, my lord, should not speak from his heart [about this], / illness — that year is it. / As many of the people as are sick — / all [will have] well-being. / It will turn around, and the king, my lord — / he who fears the gods, / day and night the gods will pray for him / …

Religion & Myth·Astronomy & Mathematics

~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 10 044. Timing a Journey of the King (ABL 1141+) [from astrologers]

[To the king, our lord:] [your servants Balasî] [and Nabû-ahhe-eriba.] [Good health] to the king, [our lord]! [May Nabû and] Marduk bless the king, our lord! Concerning the going to the city of [...] about which the king, our lord, wrote to us: if it is good for the king, in Bit-anni(?), in the month Tašritu (VII), to go [there] — or else let the king say: 'No, [... ...]' — as he has said: this month is a long-lasting road (journey) — let it be given up! Let the king go in the month of 'Entering' (Arahsamna, VIII): let him kiss the ground, let them perform the sacrifices.

Daily Life·Economy

~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 10 206. Prayers and Rituals against Retrograding Mars (ABL 1401) [from exorcists]

[Nabû and M]arduk [to the king,] my lord, [may they bl]ess. [Concerning] Mars, [about which the king, my lord,] wrote to me — [the king, my lord,] does not know [that as/when ...] ... those [...] [...] [in] the constellation of the Furrow (Virgo) it goes; [the flight of] locusts [...] [...] carries [radi]ance; [... evil of] Subartu; [... th]ese we ward off. [Its namburbi-ritual and] lifted-hand prayers [before Mar]s [...] regularly [we perform.] [As for sin,] there is none. May the heart [of the king, m]y lord [be well ...]

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~670 BCE·Neo-AssyrianOur engine

SAA 10 259. Who to Come out Next? (ABL 0364) [from exorcists]

To the king, our lord: your servants Adad-šuma-uṣur and Marduk-šākin-šumi. May there be well-being for the king, our lord. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord. Concerning the people about whom the king, our lord, wrote to us — saying: 'Is it not you who have [held] them back?' — those who have already come out to report to us, and the others who have not yet performed [their duties]: let them come out tomorrow and let them perform [them]. The king, our lord, knows which ones have performed [their duties] and which ones have not performed [them]. As for us — what do we know of this?…

Esarhaddon 118 / CDLI Seals 006507

SAA 08 001. Thunder in Ab, King Ill (RMA 257) [weather]

SAA 10 044. Timing a Journey of the King (ABL 1141+) [from astrologers]

SAA 10 206. Prayers and Rituals against Retrograding Mars (ABL 1401) [from exorcists]

SAA 10 259. Who to Come out Next? (ABL 0364) [from exorcists]

SAA 08 002. Venus and Mercury Setting (RMA 109) [planetary]

SAA 08 003. Eclipse of the Sun (RMA 274B) [eclipses]

SAA 08 004. Eclipse of the Moon in the Morning (RMA 271) [eclipses]

SAA 08 005. Evening Last of Venus (RMA 206) [planetary]

SAA 08 006. Jupiter and Cancer in Lunar Halo (RMA 093) [planetary]

SAA 08 007. Evening Last of Mars at Month’s End (RMA 021) [planetary]

SAA 08 008. Earthquakes in Adar and Nisan (RMA 264) [weather]

SAA 08 009. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 031) [lunar]

SAA 08 010. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 007) [lunar]

SAA 08 011. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 074) [lunar]

SAA 08 013. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 081) [lunar]

SAA 08 014. New Moon on 28th Day (RMA 058) [lunar]

SAA 08 015. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 128) [lunar]

SAA 08 016. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 129) [lunar]

SAA 08 017. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136O) [lunar]

SAA 08 018. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136P) [lunar]

SAA 08 019. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 152) [lunar]

SAA 08 020. Cancer in Lunar Halo [planetary]

SAA 08 021. Full Moon on 14th Day (LAS 350) [lunar]

SAA 08 023. Full Moon on 15th Day (RMA 159) [lunar]

SAA 08 024. Full Moon on 15th Day (RMA 157D) [lunar]

SAA 08 025. Full Moon on 16th Day (RMA 168) [lunar]

SAA 08 026. A Sign from Sunrise Concerning Elam (RMA 277L) [solar]

SAA 08 027. Rising of Venus (RMA 247) [planetary]

SAA 08 028. (no title) (RMA 021A) [unclassifiable]

SAA 08 030. Occultation of Old Man Star (RMA 244) [planetary]

SAA 08 031. Thunder in Ab [weather]

SAA 08 032. Thunder at Month’s End (RMA 255) [weather]

SAA 08 033. Thunder in Tišri (RMA 259) [weather]

SAA 08 034. Fog in Intercalary Adar (RMA 252E) [weather]

SAA 08 035. Red Glow (RMA 275) [occasional]

SAA 08 036. Earthquake in Šebat (RMA 267) [weather]

SAA 08 037. Earthquake in Tebet (RMA 266) [weather]

SAA 08 038. Hemerology for the 1st of Nisan [calendrical]

SAA 08 039. Saturn Stationery in Cancer (RMA 244C) [planetary]

SAA 08 040. Saturn and Regulus in Lunar Halo (RMA 180) [planetary]

SAA 08 041. Mars, Saturn and Regulus in Lunar Halo (RMA 098) [planetary]

SAA 08 042. The Moon Will not Make an Eclipse in Elul (RMA 271A) [eclipses]

SAA 08 043. Thunder in Ab (RMA 258) [weather]

SAA 08 044. Solar Halo (RMA 179) [solar]

SAA 08 045. Mars Stationary in Leo (RMA 237) [planetary]

SAA 08 046. The Moon Will not Make an Eclipse (RMA 274E) [eclipses]

SAA 08 047. The Sun Did not Make an Eclipse (RMA 274G) [eclipses]

SAA 08 048. Conjunction of Mars and Saturn (RMA 236H) [planetary]

SAA 08 049. Conjunction of Mars and Saturn in Lunar Halo on Full Moon Day (RMA 103) [planetary]