SAA 08 143. Morning First of Mars in Tammuz (RMA 244D) [planetary][via saao/saa08]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[MUL.x x x] MUL.LÚ.ḪUN.GÁ ik-ta-šad	(1) [...] reached Aries.
o 22	[1 MUL.x x x x] un-nu-ut	(2) [If ......] is faint, [......] will experience sorrow.
o 33	[x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ i-dir-tú IGI.LAL	(3) [This word] is not [in the Series], it is extraneous. [When ......] is faint [......], it will be cited.
o 44	[x x x x x x] la-áš-šú a-ḫi-ú šu-ú
o 55	[ki-i x x x x] un-nu-tú-ni
o 66	[x x x x x]-u-ni i-na-sa-ḫa
Reverse
r 1r 1	[1 MUL.UDU.IDIM] SA₅ ba-il	(r 1) [If] the red [planet] is bright: your [hand] will catch [...].
r 22	[x x x ŠU.2]-⸢ka⸣ i-ka-áš-šá-ad
r 33	[1 ina ITI.ŠU ^dIM] ⸢GÙ⸣-šú ŠUB BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ	(r 3) [If in Tammuz (IV) Adad th]unders: the harvest of the land will prosper.
r 44	[1 ina ITI.ŠU ^dṣal-bat-a-nu IGI] ⸢KI⸣.NÁ qu-ra-di DAGAL-iš	(r 4) [If Mars becomes visible in Tammuz (IV)]: the cemetery of warriors will enlarge.
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r 55	[ša ^m^d]⸢PA⸣—mu-še-ṣi	(r 5) [From Nab]û-mušeṣi.

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/P336541/.