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

su-un-qu ina KURMAR.TU GÁL-ši

33

LUGAL NIM.MA.KI ÚŠ : IDIM EN-šú i-ba-ru

44

1 d30 MUL.ŠUL.PA.È.A i-rim

(4) If the moon covers Jupiter: the king will capture enemy kings.

55

LUGAL LUGAL-MEŠ KÚR-MEŠ ŠU.2-su KUR-ád

66

[1] UD 14-KÁM d30 u dUTU KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ

(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

KA GI.NA ŠÀ-bi KUR DÙG-ab

88

DINGIR-MEŠ KURURI.KI a-na da-me-[iq-ti]

99

i-ḫa-sa-su

Reverse
r 1r 1

bu-lum KURURI.KI par-ga-niš ina EDIN

r 22

i-rab-bi-ṣu di- BURU₁₄ ana EN.TE.NA

r 33

di- EN.TE.NA ana BURU₁₄ -ta-bar-[ri]

r 44

[ḫu]-ud ŠÀ-bi ERIM-ni ŠÀ-bi LUGAL DÙG-ab

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

ú-rap-pa-áš SUḪUŠ GIŠ.GU.ZA-šú ú-[ka-an]

r 77

1 30 20 ik-šu-dam-ma KI-šú [it-ten-]

(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

SI SI i-dir kit-ti ina [KUR GÁL]

r 99

DUMU KI AD-šú kit-ti i-[ta-mi]

r 1010

šá mṭa-bi-ia

(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/.