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SAA 08 108. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 144B) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If the moon reaches the sun [and follows it closely], one horn [meets] the other: [there will be truth in the land, and] the son [will speak the truth] with his father. (4) If the moon and sun are in balance: [reliable speech] will be placed in the mouth of people; [the king of the land will make his throne last long]. (6) If the sun rises, and the moon [......] prosperity for years [......]. (8) — On the 14th day the moon [was seen] together with the sun. (9) If the horns of the moon at its appearance [are equal]: for the land, pea[ceful] dwelling. (r 1) The moon will complete the day,…
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336466/
Why it matters
Transliteration
1 d30 dUTU ik-šu-⸢dam⸣-[ma KI-šú it-ten-tu] / qar-nu qar-nu [i-dir ina KUR kit-tú GÁL-ši-ma] / DUMU KI AD-šú [kit-tú i-tam-me] / 1 d30 u dUTU šit-qu-[lu KA GI.NA] / ina KA UN-MEŠ GAR-an [LUGAL KUR AŠ.TE SUMUN-bar] / 1 dUTU KUR-ḫa-ma d30 [x x x x x x x x] / iš-di-ḫu MU-MEŠ [x x x x x x x x] / UD 14-KÁM d30 KI d[UTU IGI-ma] / 1 d30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI-⸢MEŠ⸣-[šú mit-ḫa-ra] / ana KUR KI.TUŠ ne-[eḫ-tum]…
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 P336466.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336466). 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/P336466/.
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