SAA 08 371. Mercury Sighted in Scorpius (RMA 151) [planetary][via saao/saa08]


Obverse
o 1o 1	1 30 u ^dUTU šu-ta-tu-ú	(1) If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. — On the 14th day each month one god will be seen with the other.
o 22	LUGAL KUR uz-nu ú-rap-pa-áš
o 33	UD 14-KÁM ITI-us-su DINGIR KI DINGIR IGI-ma
o 44	ITI.DU₆ ITI.APIN u ITI.GAN 03 ITI-ME	(4) In Tishri (VII), Marchesvan (VIII), and Kislev (IX), three months in a row, (the moon and sun) were seen for good fortune and length of days of the king my lord.
o 55	EGIR a-ḫa-meš ana SIG₅ u a-rak UD-ME
o 66	šá LUGAL be-lí-ía it-tan-ma-ru
o 77	1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI-MEŠ-šú tur-ru-ka	(7) If the moon's horns at its appearance are very dark: disbanding of the fortified outposts, retiring of the guards; there will be reconciliation and peace in the land. — On the 14th day one god is seen with the other.
o 88	DU₈ bi-ra-a-ti a-rad EN.NUN-ME
o 99	taš-mu-ú u SILIM-mu ina KUR GÁL
o 1010	UD 14-KÁM DINGIR KI DINGIR IGI-ma
o 1111	1 30 UD 14-KÁM IGI-ma SIG₅ KUR—URI.KI	(11) If the moon is seen on the 14th day: good for Akkad, bad for Elam and the Westland.
Reverse
r 1r 1	ḪUL KUR.NIM u MAR.TU
r 22	1 MUL.GÍR.TAB GI₆ ina ŠÀ-šú taš-mu-ú GÁL	(r 2) If Scorpius is black: therein will be reconciliation. Moon and Mercury have one meaning.
r 33	šá ^d30 u ^dGUD.UD 01^-et^? a-mat-su^-nu^*

r 44	1 ina ITI.GAN UD 15-KÁM ana ^dU.GUR liš-ken	(r 4) In Kislev (IX) on the 15th day let him pray in supplication to Nergal, let him hold a date palm branch in his hand, then he will be safe on a journey or on the road.
r 55	GIŠ.ŠÀ-bi—GIŠIMMAR ina ŠU.2-šú liš-ši
r 66	ina KASKAL u me-te-qí i-šal-lim
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r 77	UD 16-KÁM UD 17-KÁM GUD ina IGI ^dAG i-tar-ra-aṣ	(r 7) On the 16th and 17th day he will place a bull before Nabû, the bull will n[ot] be slaughtered before Nabû.
r 88	GUD ina IGI ^dAG ⸢ul^?⸣ im-maḫ-ḫa-aṣ
r 99	UD 18-KÁM ^dPA^* il-lab-bi-iš	(r 9) On the 18th day Nabû will be clothed. On the night of the 19th, there is the kinūnu-ritual.
r 1010	MI šá UD 19-KÁM KI.NE
r 1111	šá ^m^dPA—MU—GAR-un	(r 11) From Nabû-šuma-iškun.

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/P236976/.