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SAA 08 111. Full Moon on 16th Day (RMA 166) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If on the 16th day the moon and sun are seen together: one king will send hostile messages to another king; the king will be shut up in his palace for the length of a month; the step of the enemy (will be set) towards his land; the enemy will keep marching victoriously through his land. (6) If the moon in Tammuz (IV) is not seen together with the sun, neither on the 14th nor on the 15th day: the king will be shut up in his palace. (r 2) (The moon) was seen on the 16th day; good for Assyria, bad for Akkad and the Westland. (r 4) From Akkullanu.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336478/
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Transliteration
1 UD 16-KÁM 30 u 20 KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ / LUGAL ana LUGAL MÍ.KÚR KIN-ár / LUGAL ina É.GAL-šú a-na mi-na-at ar-ḫi / ú-ta-sar GÌR.2 KÚR a-na KUR-šú <GAR-an> / LÚ.KÚR ina KUR-šú šal-ṭa-niš DU-MEŠ / 1 30 ina ITI.ŠU lu-u UD 14-KÁM lu-u UD 15-KÁM / KI dUTU NU IGI-ir / LUGAL ina É.GAL-šú ú-ta-sar / UD 16-KÁM IGI.LAL-ma SIG₅ KUR.SU.BIR₄.KI / ḪUL KUR—URI.KI u KUR—MAR.TU / ša mak-kul-la-ni
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 P336478.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336478). 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/P336478/.
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