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SAA 08 370

  • CDLI P237883
  • Collection no.: BM —
  • Accession no.: K 00785
  • Primary publication(s): RMA 095

Details

  • Provenience: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) (Pleiades ID: 874621)
  • Archive: 099 - Miscellaneous
  • Language: Akkadian (Neo-Babylonian)
  • Genre: Astrological Report (planetary)
  • Object type: tablet
  • Material: clay
  • Script: Neo-Babylonian

Date

  • Period: Neo-Assyrian
  • Reign: Esarhaddon or Ashurbanipal
  • Dated: no

Sender Information

  • Sender: Nabu-šuma-iškun
  • Location: Nineveh
  • Recipient: (the king)
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SAA 08 370. Jupiter and Scorpius in Lunar Halo (RMA 095) [planetary][via saao/saa08]

Obverse
o 1o 1

1 30 TÙR NÍGIN-ma dSAG.ME.GAR

(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

ina ŠÀ-šú GUB LUGAL ú-ta-sar

o 33

TÙR-su ul ka-ṣir

o 44

ana ḪUL ul i-la-pat

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

ú-šú-uz ana a-x+[x x]

Reverse
r 1r 1

GISKIM / mi-ḫir GISKIM* ana SIG₅

r 22

ina AN-e i-ba-áš-ši

r 33

1 dŠÁR.UR₄ u dŠÁR.GAZ

(r 3) If Šarur and Šargaz of the sting of Scorpius keep gaining radiance: the weapons of Akkad are raised.

r 44

šá zi-qit MUL.GÍR.TAB

r 55

it-ta-na-an-bi-ṭu

r 66

GIŠ.TUKUL-ME KURURI.KI

r 77

te-bu-ú



r 88

šá mdAGMUGAR-un

(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/.