SAA 08 338. Morning Last of Venus in Kislev (RMA 210) [planetary][via saao/saa08]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) If in Kislev (IX) from the 1st day to the 30th day Venus disappears in the east: there will be a famine of barley and straw in the land. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (4) The lord of kings will say: "The month is not (yet) finished, why did you write me good or bad (omens)?" The scribal art is not heard about in the market place. Let the lord of kings summon me on a day which is convenient to him, and I will investigate and speak to the king my lord. | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | (r 5) From Ašaredu. |
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/P236916/.