SAA 08 349. Venus Sighted in Sivan (RMA 207A) [planetary][via saao/saa08]


Obverse
oo	beginning broken away	(Beginning destroyed)
o 1'1'	⸢1⸣ ^d⸢dil-bat ina ITI⸣.SIG₄ [IGI ŠUB-tim LÚ.KÚR]	(1) If Venus [becomes visible] in Sivan (III): [fall of the enemy].
o 2'2'	1 ^ddil-bat ina EN.TE.[NA ina ^dUTU.È.A]	(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'	ina BURU₁₄ ina ^d[UTU.ŠÚ.A nap-ḫat]
o 4'4'	LUGAL-MEŠ KÚR-MEŠ [SILIM-MEŠ]
o 5'5'	BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ [KUR]
o 6'6'	NINDA-ḪI.A DÙG.GA [KÚ]
Reverse
r 1r 1	taš-mu-ú u SILIM-mu ka-liš GAR-an
r 22	[1 ^ddil]-⸢bat⸣ ina KASKAL šu-[ut ^d]⸢EN⸣.LÍL IGI-ir	(r 2) [If Venus becomes visible] in the path of the Enl[il stars: the king of Akkad will get no] rival; [...] ... [......].
r 33	[LUGAL URI].KI ⸢GABA⸣.[RI NU TUK]-⸢ši⸣
r 44	[x x DU]-ak [x x x x x x]
	traces, rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)

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/.