SAA 08 456. Comet and Evening Last of Jupiter (RMA 183) [planetary]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | (1) If a comet becomes visible in the path of the stars of Anu: there will be a fall of Elam in battle. | |
| o 22 | ||
| o 33 | (3) If the sun rises in a cloudbank: 32 will become furious and raise his weapons. 32 means "king." | |
| o 44 | ||
| o 55 | (5) — Jupiter stood there one month over its period. | |
| o 66 | (6) (If) Jupiter passes to the west: the land will dwell in quiet. | |
| o 77 | ||
| o 88 | (8) — Jupiter stood there one month over its period. | |
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | (r 1) Marchesvan (VIII) is the month of the king my lord. | |
| r 22 | (r 2) If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day: reliable speech; the land will become happy. | |
| r 33 | (r 3) If the day reaches its normal length: a reign of long days. | |
| r 44 | UD 01-KÁM d30 IGI.LAL-ma | (r 4) — On the 1st day the moon became visible. |
| r 55 | (r 5) A slave-girl of the king my lord ... to Babylonia; I was not staying there, so she fled. Let the king my lord ..., let them lead her here and hand her over. | |
| r 66 | la áš-ba-ku taḫ-te-liq LUGAL be-lí-a ⸢x x x⸣ | |
| r 77 | ||
| r 88 | (r 8) From Bel-le'i, descendant of Egibi, exorcist. |
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/P237796/.