Position in chronology
SAA 08 064. Full Moon on 13th Day (RMA 084) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon [is ...] in its course: [there will be] evil. (3) — It [will be seen] on the 13th day (with the sun). (4) 4 months after ea[ch other] (the moon) completed the day; it rose high in [...], on the 13th day [it was seen with the sun]. The king my lord need not [be afraid] of the bad omen. (8) If the moon at its appearance "pile[s up]" the sky: it will rain, variant: the floo[d will come]. (r 1) [— It became visible in a piled-up cl]oud. (r 2) If [the Anzu star ...] is bright: either [frost] or cold [...]. (r 5) The Anzu star [is Mars]. (r 6) "Frost" [is "cold"]. (r 7) If the strange star [comes close to] Gemini: [the ruler will die]. (r 8) "The ruler will die," as it says, [refers] to [...]. (e. 1) From Nabû-ahhe-eriba.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 30 ina a-la-ki-šú [ut-taḫ-ḫa-as] / lum-nu [GÁL-ši] / UD 13-KÁM in-[nam-mar-ma] / 04 ITI-MEŠ i—da-at a-[ḫe-e-iš] / UD-mu us-sa-lim ina ŠÀ-⸢bi⸣ [x x x] / it-tan-ta-ḫa UD 13-KÁM it-[ti dUTU it-ta-mar] / LUGAL be-lí a-na lum-ni lu la [i-pal-làḫ] / 1 d30 ina IGI.LAL-šú AN-ú šá-[pi-ik] / AN-ú i-za-nun KI.MIN A.⸢KAL⸣ [DU-kám] / ina IM.[DIRI šá-pi-ik-ti IGI-ma] / 1 MUL.d[IM.DUGUD x x x] / ba-ìl šúm-ma…
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 P336415.
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/P336415/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336415/.
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