Position in chronology
SAA 08 018. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136P) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If on the 14th day the moon and sun] are seen together: [reliable speech]; the land will become hap[py; the gods will remem]ber [the land favorably; joy among the tr]oops. (Break) (r 1) [If the moon and sun are] in opposition: the king of the land [will wi]den his understanding. (r 3) From Issar-šumu-ereš.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[1 UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20] KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-ME / [KA GI.NA ŠÀ] KUR DÙG-ab / [DINGIR-MEŠ KUR a-na SIG₅-tim i-ḫa]-sa-su / [ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi] ⸢ERIM⸣-ni / [1 30 u 20 šu]-ta-tu-ú / LUGAL KUR uz-nu [DAGAL]-áš / ša m15—MU—KAM-eš
Scholarly note
Astrological report from a court scholar to an Assyrian king, edited by Hermann Hunger (SAA 8, 1992). Celestial and meteorological observation correlated with omens. ORACC text P336455.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P336455). source
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336455/.
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