SAA 08 349. Venus Sighted in Sivan (RMA 207A) [planetary][via saao/saa08]
| Obverse | ||
| oo | beginning broken away | |
| o 1'1' | (1) If Venus [becomes visible] in Sivan (III): [fall of the enemy]. | |
| o 2'2' | (2) If Venus [is risen] in winter [in the east], at harvest time in [the west]: enemy kings [will be reconciled]; the harvest of the land will prosper; [the land will eat] good bread; reconciliation and peace will take place everywhere. | |
| o 3'3' | ||
| o 4'4' | ||
| o 5'5' | ||
| o 6'6' | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | (r 2) [If Venus becomes visible] in the path of the Enl[il stars: the king of Akkad will get no] rival; [...] ... [......]. | |
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | [x x DU]-ak [x x x x x x] | |
| traces, rest broken away |
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/P237953/.