SAA 08 244. Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (RMA 162) [planetary][via saao/saa08]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) On the 15th day the moon and sun were seen together: a strong enemy will raise his weapons against the land; the enemy will tear down my city gate. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | (4) The moon will become visible in Iyyar (II) on the 30th day. | |
| o 55 | (5) If the moon becomes visible in Iyyar (II) on the 30th day: the Ahlamû will devour the wealth of the Westland. | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | (7) The moon will be seen in Iyyar (II) on the 16th day together with the sun. | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | (r 2) If Jupiter goes with Venus: there will be praying of the land to the gods. | |
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | (r 4) Marduk and Zarpanitu will hear the prayers of your troops and will have mercy on your troops. | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | (r 7) Let them give me a donkey so that I can let my feet recover thereby. | |
| r 88 | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 9r.e. 9 | (r.e. 9) From Nergal-eṭir. |
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/P240142/.