SAA 08 401. Clouds (RMA 182) [weather][via saao/saa08]


Obverse
o 1o 1	1 ni-du ina KASKAL 20 ŠUB-MEŠ DINGIR-MEŠ GALGA KUR	(1) If cloudbanks lie in the path of the sun: the gods will make a favorable decision about the land.
o 22	ana MÍ.SIG₅ GALGA-MEŠ
o 33	1 04 ni-du ŠUB-ME	(3) If four cloudbanks lie there: destruction of cattle and wild animals.
o 44	NÍG.ḪA.LAM.MA GUD-MEŠ u ú-ma-mu
o 55	1 ina KUR 20 ni-du a-ṣi	(5) If a cloudbank has come out in the path of the sun: rain and flood will come.
o 66	A.AN u A.KAL DU-MEŠ
Reverse
r 1r 1	1 20 KUR ina KASKAL-šú ni-du ŠUB-MEŠ	(r 1) If (at) the sun's rising cloudbanks lie in its path: the emblems of the land will fall.
r 22	ŠU.NIR KUR ŠUB-MEŠ

r 33	šá ^mTUK-ši—DINGIR	(r 3) From Rašil the older, servant of the king.
r 44	ARAD šá LUGAL maḫ-ru-u

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/.