Position in chronology
SAA 08 060. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 062) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If the moon becomes visible in] Nisan (I) on the 30th day: [Su]bartu [will devour] the Ahlamû; a foreigner will rule the Westland. (4) We are Subartu. (5) If the moon becomes visible on the 30th day: there will be frost in the land. (7) "Frost" is "cold." (r 1) The moon will be seen with the sun in Tebet (X) on the 14[th] day. (r 3) The moon will complete the day in Shebat (XI); on the 14th day it will be seen with the sun. (r 5) [The moon] will reject the day [in] Adar (XII); [on the xth day] it will be seen with the sun. (r 7) [The moon] will complete the day in Nisan (I). (r 8) [From Na]bû-ahhe-eriba.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 30 ina] ITI.BARAG UD 30-KÁM [IGI] / [su]-bar-tum aḫ-la-ma-a [KÚ] / EME / BAR-tum / KUR—MAR.TU.KI i-be-⸢el⸣ / a-ni-nu SU.BIR₄.KI / 1 30 UD 30-KÁM IGI / šu-ru-up-pu-u ina KUR GÁL-ši / šu-ru-up-pu-u ku-uṣ-ṣu / d30 ina ITI.AB UD 14-[KÁM] / TAv dšá-maš in-⸢na⸣-mar / d30 ina ITI.ZÍZ UD-mu ú-šal-lam / UD 14-KÁM TAv dšá-maš in-na-mar / [d30 ina] ITI.ŠE UD-mu ú-tar-ra / [UD x-KÁM TAv] dšá-maš in-na-mar / [d30 ina] ⸢ITI⸣.BARAG UD-mu ú-šal-lam / [ša md]⸢PA⸣—PAB-MEŠ—SU
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 P336398.
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/P336398/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336398/.
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