SAA 08 005. Evening Last of Venus (RMA 206) [planetary][via saao/saa08]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) Venus se[t] in the west. | |
| o 22 | (2) If Venus in [Tebet (X)] from the 1st to the 30th day disappears in the west: the harvest of the land will prosper. | |
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) If Venus keeps a stable position: the days of the ruler will be long; there will be truth in the land. | |
| o 66 | ||
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | [1] ⸢MUL⸣.dil-bat ina KASKAL šu-ut dÉ.A | (8) If Venus moves in the path of Ea and sta[nds: the god]s will have peace for the Westland. |
| o 99 | ||
| o 1010 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | ||
| r 22 | (r 2) If the moon is surrounded by a halo and the Pleiades stand in it: in that year, women will give birth to male children. | |
| r 33 | ||
| r 44 | (r 4) If ditto, and the Old Man star s[tand]s in it: in that year, fall of peop[le]; it will not affect cattle and sheep. | |
| r 55 | ||
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | (r 7) From Issar-šumu-ereš. |
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/P336507/.