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SAA 08 188. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 042) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If the moon at] its appearance [wears a crown: the king of the land will reach] the highest rank; the land wil[l dwell] as if in pastures near the city. (4) It means that (the moon) will complete the day in Tishri (VII). (5) If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day: speech will become reliable; the land will become happy. (7) If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day: good for Akkad, bad for Elam [and] the Westland. (r 1) If the moon at its appearance [......]. (Rest destroyed)
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336387/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1 30 ina] IGI.LAL-šú [AGA a-pir] / [LUGAL KUR] a-šá-ri-du-[tú DU-ak] / KUR a-bur-riš uš-[ša-ab] / ša ina ITI.DU₆ UD-mu ú-šal-la-ma / 1 30 UD 01-KAM IGI KA GI.NA / ŠÀ KUR i-ṭa-ab / 1 30 UD 01-KAM IGI-ma SIG₅ KUR—URI.KI / ḪUL NIM.MA.KI [u] a-mur-re-e / 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú [x x x]
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 P336387.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336387). 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/P336387/.
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