Position in chronology
SAA 08 257. New Moon on 1st Day (RMA 035) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day]: reliable [speech]; the land will become happy. (2) [If ......] the harvest of the land will prosper; there will be [......]. (4) [If the moon's horns at its appearance are very poin]ted and are red: [the ruler] ...... his land will submit to him. (6) [If the moon's] horns at its appearance are very pointed: the king of Akkad will weaken the enemy land wherever he goes. (8) [If] the moon's horns at its appearance are pointed and clear: the king of Akkad will rule all lands wherever he turns. (r 2) If the moon is clear at its appearance: A[kka]d…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 30 UD 01-KÁM IGI KA] GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG.GA / [x x x x x x GÍD].DA BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ / [x x x x x x x] ⸢x⸣ GÁL-ši / [1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI-MEŠ-šú ud-du]-⸢da⸣-ma SA₅-MEŠ / [NUN] ⸢x x x-ma⸣ / KUR-su GAM-su / [1 30] ina IGI.LAL-šú SI-MEŠ-šú ud-du-da LUGAL URI.KI / e-ma DU-ku KUR KÚR un-na-áš / [1] 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI-MEŠ-šú ed-da-ma ZÁLAG-MEŠ / LUGAL URI.KI e-ma pa-nu-šú šak-nu / KUR.KUR EN-el / 1…
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 P236977.
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/P236977/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P236977/.
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