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~675 BCE·Neo-Assyrian

SAA 16

SAA 16 180. (no title) (ABL 1399)

(1) To the king, [my] lord: your servant Marduk-bani-[...]. Good health to the king, [my] lo[rd]! May Nabû (and) Marduk bless the king m[y lord]. (Rest destroyed)

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SAA 16 180. (no title) (ABL 1399)

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]

SAA 08 051. Venus and Mercury in Sagittarius (RMA 209) [planetary]

SAA 08 052. Mars Stationary in Sagittarius (RMA 236G) [planetary]

SAA 08 053. Mars Stationary in Scorpius (RMA 070) [planetary]