Position in chronology
SAA 08 025. Full Moon on 16th Day (RMA 168) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon in Nisan (I) is seen with the sun neither on the 14th nor on the [15th day]: campaigning troops of the enemy will make a razzia into [the land] and [...] the land; there wil[l be] an uprising in the land. (6) If on the 16th day the moon and sun [are seen] together: one king [will send hostile messages] to another; the king [will be shut up] in his palace; [the step of] the enemy [will be set towards his land]; the enemy [will march around] victorious[ly in his land]. (r 1) If on the 16th day the moon and sun [are seen together]: the king of Subartu [will become strong and have no] rival. (r 4) From Issar-šumu-ereš.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 30 ina ITI.BARAG lu UD 14-KAM lu [UD 15-KAM] / KI dUTU NU IGI-[ir] / ERIM-ni KASKAL LÚ.KÚR a-na [KUR] / iḫ-ḫab-ba-ta-nim-ma KUR ⸢ú⸣-[x x x] / ḪI.GAR ina KUR ⸢GÁL⸣-[ši] / 1 UD 16-KAM 30 u 20 KI a-ḫa-⸢meš⸣ [IGI-MEŠ] / LUGAL ana LUGAL ⸢MÍ⸣.[KÚR KIN] / LUGAL ina É.GAL-šú [ú-ta-sar] / [GÌR.2] LÚ.KÚR [a-na KUR-šú] / [GAR-an] LÚ.KÚR šal-ṭa-[niš ina KUR-šú DU.DU-ak] / 1 UD 16-KAM 30 u 20 KI [a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ] / LUGAL SU.BIR₄.KI [i-dan-nin-ma] / GABA.RI [NU TUK-ši] / 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 P336479.
Attribution
Image: 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/P336479/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336479/.
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