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~675 BCE

·Neo-Assyrian

SAA 4

SAA 04 290. Will Šamaš-šumu-ukin Flee Babylon if Assyrians Take Sippar? (PRT 139) [military and political]

(1) (Beginning destroyed) (8) The 'p[ath' ......]. (9) The place of the 'finger' [...] from inside the 'base of the thro[ne'] is drawn towards the 'finger,' and the 'cap' [......]. (11) The floating ribs of the left are two. [There are] 3 unf[avorable] features. (12) The 'station' is present. The 'path' has a bifurcation toward the right narrow part. (13) The 'path' on the left of the gall bladder has fissures like a snake. (14) The 'base of the throne' [...] and faces downward. The 'finger' [...]. (15) [...] there is an atrophied part. Unfavorable. (16) [......]. The base of the middle…

Religion & Myth·Astronomy & Mathematics

~675 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 4

SAA 04 305. Should Assurbanipal Appoint Šarru-kenu to an Office? (PRT 124) [appointment]

(Beginning destroyed) (1) [... the mid]dle [...]. (2) [The breast]-bone is thick [...]. (3) The heart of the ram is norma[l]. (4) The 'well-being' is destroyed. In the left side of the gall bladder a 'foot'-mark is [...] toward its front. (5) The lower part is elevated. (6) The 'outside' rides upon the 'cap.' (7) The 'ca[vit]y' of the right lung is split. (8) The coils of the colon are 15 in number. There are 6 unfavorable omens. (9) [Should Assurbanipal, ki]ng of Assyria, [appoint the man] whose name is written in [this] tablet and placed [before] your great [divini]ty, [to an offi]ce? If he…

Religion & Myth·Astronomy & Mathematics

~675 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 4

SAA 04 335. Fragment Similar to No. 333 (PRT 125) [unclassifiable]

(Beginning destroyed) (2) [In the rig]ht side of the gall bladder there is a hole. Above [......]. (3) [The 'paths'] are 2, the lower one [...] toward [...]. (4) [Thir]d extispicy. (5) [Bel-ušall]im. Month Iyyar (II), 4th day, [eponym year of NN]. (Rest destroyed)

Religion & Myth·Astronomy & Mathematics

~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 / …

SAA 04 290. Will Šamaš-šumu-ukin Flee Babylon if Assyrians Take Sippar? (PRT 139) [military and political]

SAA 04 305. Should Assurbanipal Appoint Šarru-kenu to an Office? (PRT 124) [appointment]

SAA 04 335. Fragment Similar to No. 333 (PRT 125) [unclassifiable]

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

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]

SAA 08 050. Morning First of Mercury (Sivan 16) (RMA 246G) [planetary]