SAA 08 185. Venus Sighted in Sagittarius (RMA 211F) [planetary][via saao/saa08]


Obverse
o 1o 1	[1 MUL.dil-bat ina ITI.GAN KUR-ḫa SU].⸢KÚ⸣ ŠE u IN.NU	(1) [If Venus rises in Kislev: fam]ine of barley and straw [will] be [in the land].
o 22	[ina KUR GÁL]-ši
o 33	[1 MUL.ŠÁR.ÙR u MUL.ŠÁR.GAZ ša zi]-qit MUL.GÍR.TAB	(3) [If (the stars) Šarur and Šargaz in the st]ing of Scorpius [gain radiance: the weapons] of Akkad are raised.
o 44	[it-ta-na-an-bi-ṭu GIŠ.TUKUL-MEŠ] KUR—URI.KI ti-bu-u

o 55	[zi-qit MUL.GÍR.TAB EN GAL-ú MUL.PA].⸢BIL⸣.SAG	(5) [The sting of Scorpius is the great lord Pabi]lsag.
	rest broken away	(Rest destroyed)
Reverse
rr	destroyed

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/P336513/.