SAA 08 288. Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars (RMA 195) [planetary][via saao/saa08]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) If Jupiter stands in front of Mars: there will be barley; animals will fall, variant: a large army will fall. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | (3) If Jupiter and the False Star meet: a god will devour, variant: the gods will deliberate about the land. "They will deliberate": To deliberate (is) to consult one another. | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | (6) If Mars comes close to Jupiter: there will be a severe miqtu-disease in the land. | |
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | (8) If the risings of Jupiter and of a(nother) planet are equal: evil will happen to all lands. | |
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | (r 1) If the red planet and the big star come close: fall of cattle. The red planet is Mars, the big star is Jupiter. | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | (r 4) — Mars comes close to Jupiter. | |
| r 55 | (r 5) If a strange star comes close to Jupiter: in this year the king of Akkad will die, but the harvest of the land will prosper. | |
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | (r 7) This is a bad sign for all lands. Let the king my lord perform a namburbi ritual and so make its evil pass by. | |
| r 88 | ||
| r 99 | ||
| r 1010 | (r 10) From Nabû-iqiša of Borsippa. |
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/P237151/.