SAA 08 401. Clouds (RMA 182) [weather][via saao/saa08]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) If cloudbanks lie in the path of the sun: the gods will make a favorable decision about the land. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | (3) If four cloudbanks lie there: destruction of cattle and wild animals. | |
o 44 | ||
o 55 | (5) If a cloudbank has come out in the path of the sun: rain and flood will come. | |
o 66 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | (r 1) If (at) the sun's rising cloudbanks lie in its path: the emblems of the land will fall. | |
r 22 | ||
r 33 | (r 3) From Rašil the older, servant of the king. | |
r 44 |
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/P237785/.