SAA 08 438. Occultation of Jupiter (RMA 193) [planetary][via saao/saa08]
Obverse | ||
11 | ⸢1⸣ MUL.SAG.ME.GAR a-na ŠÀ-bi d30 ⸢TU⸣ | (1) If Jupiter ent[ers] the moon: there will be famine in the Westland; the king of Elam will die, variant: a noble will rebel against his lord. |
22 | ||
33 | ||
44 | ⸢1⸣ d30 MUL.ŠUL.PA.È.A i-rim | (4) If the moon covers Jupiter: the king will capture enemy kings. |
55 | ||
66 | (6) [If] on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favor[ably]; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the ste[ppe] undisturbed; the harvest-time grass will last until winter, the winter grass until harvest time; [j]oy among the troops; the king will become happy. | |
77 | ||
88 | ||
99 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | ||
r 22 | ||
r 33 | ||
r 44 | ||
r 55 | [1] 30 u 20 šu-ta-tu-ú LUGAL KUR ⸢ḫa⸣-[si-sa] | (r 5) [If] the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his [understanding; he will make stab]le the foundation of his throne. |
r 66 | ||
r 77 | (r 7) If the moon reaches the sun and [follows] it closely, and one horn meets the other: [there will be] truth in the land; the son will speak the truth with his father. | |
r 88 | ||
r 99 | ||
r 1010 | (r 10) From Ṭabiya. |
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/P237292/.