Position in chronology
SAA 08 063. (no title) (RMA 057) [unclassifiable]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If the moon] becomes visible on the 28th [day]: good for Akkad, bad for E[lam]. (3) The moon st[ood there] on the 28th day. (4) This sign counterbalances the sign o[f the 12th day]. (r 1) When I wr[ote] to the king my lord, saying "the gods have opened the ears of the king [my lord]," (I meant) if something [happens] to [the king and] he worries, th[e gods ...] first send a message fr[om heaven] saying: ["Let him be on his guard", ......]. (e. 1) The king my lord [......].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 30 UD] ⸢28-KAM IGI⸣.[LAL] / ⸢SIG₅⸣ KUR—URI.KI ḪUL KUR.⸢NIM⸣.[MA.KI] / [o] UD 28-KAM d30 iz-[za-az-ma] / ⸢GISKIM⸣ me-ḫir GISKIM ⸢ša⸣ [UD 12-KAM] / šu-ú / ša a-na LUGAL EN-ia áš-⸢pur⸣-[an-ni] / mu-uk PI-MEŠ ša LUGAL [EN-ia] / DINGIR-MEŠ-ni ú-pat-⸢ti⸣-[u] / šúm-ma me-me-ni a-na [LUGAL DU-ka] / TAv ŠÀ-šú i-da-bu-ub ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ-ni] / i-ḫar-ru-pu / GISKIM / TAv ⸢ŠÀ⸣ [AN-e] / [i]-⸢šap⸣-par-u-ni ma-a [lu-u e-ti-ik] / [x x x] a ⸢x x⸣ [x x x x x x] / LUGAL be-lí [x x x x] / [x x]+⸢x⸣+[x x x x x]
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 P336394.
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/P336394/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336394/.
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