Corrections to SAA 8 by Hermann Hunger

These corrections have already been incorporated into the online edition, unless otherwise noted below. They are listed here for convenient comparison with the book.

Report	Comment
5	Heading now "Evening Last of Venus"
38	This was heavily restored after I had submitted it. Andrew George and Irving Finkel provided me with a corrected transliteration which I have inserted in the online edition here. There is a parallel in Orientalia 54, 23f.
41	Date doubtful
45	Date uncertain
54	Date rather -678
114	Heading now "Morning First of Mars Near Jupiter(?)"
168	To be attributed to Šumaya PGP rather than Bamaya PGP according to Koch-Westenholz, Mesopotamian astrology, p. 182 n.1
185	Heading now "Venus Sighted in Sagittarius"
203	Line 7: correction due to M. Stol
231	Corrections by A. George and I. Finkel
251	Date -673 September 3
280	Now joined to SAA 8: 286 (J. Fincke). Note that the protasis 1 20 KUR-ma šá-ru-ru-šú e-ṭú-ú is not attested in van Soldt, Solar omens. View new transliteration and translation, after joins, here. Not in main online corpus.
283	Joined to K 5712 (J. Fincke). View new transliteration and translation, after joins, here. Not in main online corpus.
383	While both Mars and Saturn were in a lunar halo, this does not mean they were in conjunction; the word conjunction has been removed from the heading in the online edition
384	Date doubtful (P.J. Huber); two different solar eclipses.
386	Restorations are uncertain (and not mine); there is no basis for restoring Saturn in line 1. If correct, the heading contradicts the translation: the planet is moving from Libra to Scorpius, and is therefore not retrograding.
400	Joined to Ki 1904-10-9,321 (J. Fincke) View new transliteration and translation, after joins, here. Not in main online corpus
401	These omens are quoted from Enuma Anu Enlil 29(30) III 44ff. (van Soldt, Solar omens., p. 125).
403	Date -673 or -665.
410	Joined to K 15005 (J. Fincke) View new transliteration and translation, after joins, here. Not in main online corpus
487	The beginning only makes sense if the writer says: "I predicted an eclipse, and now it did occur." So I have changed the online edition from ul it-te-eq to ul it-te-iq.
502	Date -678 Nov. This text was treated by Maneveau, NABU 1993/116.
510	Now joined to SAA 8: 475 (J. Fincke). View new transliteration and translation, after joins, here. Not in main online corpus.
535	Cf. Koch-Westenholz, Mesopotamian astrology, p. 88, who calls this a collection of omens, not a report

The list of previously unpublished texts on page 379 of SAA 8 seems to be an old version with incorrect museum numbers. Here is an improved version:

Museum Number	SAA 8 Number	Museum Number	SAA 8 Number
K 18	435	83-1-18,206	233
K 115	38	Ki 1904-10-9,28	440
K 738	232	Ki 1904-10-9,32	31
K 777	242	Ki 1904-10-9,36	472
K 812	322	Ki 1904-10-9,38	12
K 848	204	Ki 1904-10-9,53	72
K 920	164	Ki 1904-10-9,55	302
K 960	459	Ki 1904-10-9,142	236
K 985	167	Ki 1904-10-9,215	139
K 1320	193	Ki 1904-10-9,233	22
K 1345	315	Ki 1904-10-9,262	400
K 1599	567	Ki 1904-10-9,268	20
K 1909	402	BM 98999	440
K 1970	201	BM 99003	31
K 11095	228	BM 99007	472
K 11333	229	BM 99009	12
K 11335	235	BM 99024	72
K 14560	191	BM 99026	302
K 14563	159	BM 99113	236
K 14565	557	BM 99183	139
K 14568	558	BM 99201	22
K 17953	122	BM 99230	400
K 19677	509	BM 99236	20
Sm 1360	230	BM 134556	275
Rm 193	300	Nv.3	483
82-5-22,82	127	Nv.4	113
82-5-22,156	560

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