Position in chronology
SAA 08 177. Full Moon on 16th Day (RMA 169) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If the m]oon in Tammuz (IV) is seen with the sun neither on the 14th nor on the 15th day: the king will be shut up in his palace. (4) If on the 16th day the moon and sun are seen toget[her]: one king will send hostile messages to another; the king will be shut up in [his palace for] a month's length; [the step of the en]emy will be s[et] towards his land; [the enemy will march] around victoriously in his land. (r 3) The moon was seen on the 16th day, that is bad for Akkad, but good for Subartu. (r 5) From Šumaya.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1] ⸢30⸣ ina ITI.ŠU lu UD 14-KÁM lu UD 15-KÁM / it-ti dUTU NU IGI-ir / LUGAL ina É.GAL-šú ú-ta-sar / 1 UD 16-KÁM 30 u 20 it-ti a-ḫa-[meš] / in-nam-ru LUGAL ana LUGAL / nu-kúr-tum i-šap-par LUGAL ina [É.GAL-šú] / [ana mi]-na-at ITI ú-⸢ta⸣-[sar] / [GÌR] ⸢KÚR⸣ ana KUR-šu iš-⸢šak⸣-[ka-an] / [LÚ.KÚR] ina KUR-šu šal-ṭa-niš it-⸢ta⸣-[na-lak] / ⸢30⸣ UD 16-KÁM IGI-ma ḪUL KUR—URI.⸢KI⸣ / SIG₅ KUR.SU.BIR₄.⸢KI⸣ / ša mšu-ma-a.a
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 P336480.
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/P336480/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336480/.
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