SAA 10 047. Conjunctions of Mars and Saturn (ABL 0079) [from astrologers][via saao/saa10]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) To the king, our lord: your servants Balasî and Nabû-ahhe-eriba. Good health to the king, our lord! May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, our lord! | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | ||
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | (6) Concerning the planets [Satur]n and [Mars] ... | |
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | ||
| rest (about 7 lines) broken away | ||
| Reverse | ||
| rr | beginning (about 3 lines) broken away | |
| r 1'1' | (r 1) There is (still) (a distance of) about 5 fi[ngers] left; it (= the conjunction) is not y[et] certain. Presently we keep observing and shall write to the king, our lord. It (= Mars) moves about a finger a day. | |
| r 2'2' | ||
| r 3'3' | ||
| r 4'4' | ||
| r 5'5' | ||
| r 6'6' | ||
| r 7'7' | ||
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Adapted from Simo Parpola, Letters from Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars (State Archives of Assyria, 10), 1993. Lemmatised by Mikko Luukko, 2016, 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/P334028/.