SAA 08 370. Jupiter and Scorpius in Lunar Halo (RMA 095) [planetary][via saao/saa08]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and Jupiter stands in it: the king will be shut up. (But) its halo was not closed; (so) it does not portend evil. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | 1 MUL.A.EDIN KI ⸢x⸣+[x] | (5) If the Frond star stands with [...]: for [...] a sign, an equivalent of a sign portending good will be there in the sky. |
| o 66 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | (r 3) If Šarur and Šargaz of the sting of Scorpius keep gaining radiance: the weapons of Akkad are raised. | |
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | (r 8) From Nabû-šuma-iškun. |
Adapted from Hermann Hunger, Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings (State Archives of Assyria, 8), 1992. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016-17, as part of the research programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair in the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at LMU Munich (Karen Radner, Humboldt Professorship 2015). The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/saao/P237883/.