Position in chronology
SAA 08 195. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [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 king will become happy]; the cattle of Akkad wil[l lie] in the steppe undisturbed. (5) If the moon and sun are in balance: the land will become stable; reliable speech [will be placed] in the m[outh of people]; the king of the land will make the throne last long. (7) If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely, and one horn me[ets] the other: there will be truth [in] the land, and the son will [speak] the truth with his father. (r 1) [If the moon and sun] are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. (r 2) [From NN].
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336449/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[1 UD] 14-KÁM 30 u 20 KI a-ḫa-⸢meš⸣ [IGI.LAL-MEŠ] / KA GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI ana [SIG₅-tim] / i-ḫa-as-sa-su ḫu-ud ŠÀ-bi ERIM-ḪI.A ⸢ŠÀ⸣ [LUGAL DÙG] / bu-ul KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš ina EDIN i-⸢rab⸣-[bi-iṣ] / 1 30 u 20 šit-qú-lu KUR i-kan at-mu-u ki-nu ina ⸢KA⸣ [UN-MEŠ GAR-an] / LUGAL KUR AŠ.TE SUMUN-[bar] / 1 30 20 KUR-ma KI-šú it-ten-tú SI SI i-⸢dir⸣ / [ina] KUR kit-tú GÁL-ma DUMU KI AD-šú kit-tú i-[ta-mi] / [1 30 u 20] ⸢šu⸣-ta-tu-u LUGAL KUR uz-nu DAGAL-[áš] / [ša mx x]+⸢x 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 P336449.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336449). 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/P336449/.
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