SAA 08 082. Mars and Saturn in Lunar Halo on Full Moon Day (RMA 088) [planetary, lunar][via saao/saa08]
Obverse | ||
o 1o 1 | (1) [If the moon] becomes late at an inappropriate time and does not become visible: attack of a ruling city. | |
o 22 | ||
o 33 | (3) — It sets on the 15th day and is seen with the sun on the 16th day. | |
o 44 | 1 MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu MUL.UDU.IDIM is-sa-na-aḫ-ḫur ŠE-im iq-qir | (4) If Mars keeps going around a planet: barley will become expensive. |
o 5o 5 | (5) If the Raven star reaches the path of the sun: business will diminish; variant: there will be clamor. | |
ma-ḫi-ru | ||
o 66 | ||
o 77 | (7) These are words concerning Akkad. Mars remained four fingers distant from Saturn, it did not come close. It did not reach it. I have (nevertheless) copied (the relevant omen). What does it matter? Let the pertinent namburbi ritual be performed. | |
o 88 | MUL.ṣal-bat-a-nu / er-bi / ú-ba-ni TA IGI MUL.UDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ | |
o 99 | ||
o 1010 | ||
o 1111 | 1 30 UD 16-KÁM IGI LUGAL SU.BIR₄.KI i-dan-nin-ma | (11) If the moon is seen on the 16th day: the king of Subartu will become strong and have no opponent. |
o 1212 | ||
Reverse | ||
r 1r 1 | (r 1) If the moon is surrounded by a halo and a planet stands in it: robbers will rage. | |
r 22 | ||
r 33 | (r 3) If the moon is surrounded by a halo and Mars stands in it: destruction of cattle and wild animals; the kor-measure will decrease; date plantations will not prosper; the Westland will become small. | |
r 44 | ||
r 55 | ||
r 66 | (r 6) If the moon is surrounded by a halo and the Field star stands in it: reduction of barley. | |
r 77 | ||
r 88 | (r 8) The Field star (means) Virgo. | |
r 99 | (r 9) From Balasî. | |
r 1010 | (r 10) Mars will go away from this (point), it is [in f]ront of Saturn. [The moon] will complete the day in Nisan (I). | |
r 1111 | ||
r 1212 |
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/P336417/.