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SAA 08 110. Saturn in Lunar Halo, Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 144) [planetary, lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) On the 14th day the moon and sun were seen together. This night, the moon was surrounded by a halo, and Saturn stood inside the halo with the moon. (4) If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably; joy among the troops; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. (7) If the moon is slow in its course: the harvest of the land will prosper. — It is seen on the 14th day. (8) If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. (9) It means that on the…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
UD 14-KÁM d30 ù dUTU KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ / mu-šu an-ni-ú d30 TÙR NIGIN-ma / dUDU.IDIM.SAG.UŠ ina ŠÀ TÙR KI d30 GUB-iz / 1 UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 it-ti a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ KA GI.NA / ŠÀ KUR DÙG.GA DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI a-na MÍ.SIG₅ i-ḫa-sa-su / ḪÚL ŠÀ ERIM-MEŠ bu-ul KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš ina EDIN i-rab-bi-iṣ / 1 30 ina DU-šú né-eḫ BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ : UD 14-KÁM IGI-ma / 1 30 u 20 šu-ta-tu-ú LUGAL KUR uz-na…
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 P336464.
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/P336464/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336464/.
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