SAA 08 339. Comet and Evening Last of Jupiter (RMA 181B) [planetary]
| Obverse | ||
| o 1o 1 | [1] ṣal-lum-mu-[u ina KASKAL šu-ut] | (1) [If] a comet [becomes visible in the path of the stars of] Anu: [fall of Elam. Its] people [......] will be confused [......] city with city [......] brother will kill brother [......] the king of Elam [......] his days are near (to their end). |
| o 22 | [o] da-num [IGI ŠUB-tim NIM.MA.KI] | |
| o 33 | UN-MEŠ ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] | |
| o 44 | SÙḪ-MEŠ [x x x x x] | |
| o 55 | ||
| o 66 | ||
| Reverse | ||
| r 1r 1 | LUGAL NIM.MA.⸢KI⸣ [x x x] | |
| r 22 | ||
| r 33 | (r 3) If the sun rises in a cloudbank: 3,20 will become furious and raise weapons. [3,20 means "king."] | |
| r 44 | ||
| r 55 | (r 5) [Ju]piter remained ste[ady in] the sky for a month of da[ys]. May [the king of a]ll lands be everla[sting]! | |
| r 66 | ||
| r 77 | ||
| Right | ||
| r.e. 8r.e. 8 | (r 8) [From Ašaredu]. |
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/P336489/.