Position in chronology
SAA 08 269. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 146A) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If the moon] and sun are in opposition: [the ki]ng of the land wi[ll wid]en his understanding. (3) [If] the moon and sun are in balance: the land will become stable; reliable speech will be placed in the mouth [of people; the king of the land] will make [the throne] last long. [......] ... [......]. (r 1) [......] ... [...] will give advice; the harvest of the land will prosper; the land will see plenty. (r 4) On the 20th day of Iyyar (II) let him kill a snake: he will reach the highest rank. (r 6) From Nergal-eṭir.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 30] ù 20 šu-ta-tu-ú / ⸢LUGAL⸣ KUR uz-na ú-[rap-pa]-áš / [1] 30 ù 20 šit-qú-lu? / KUR i-kan? at-[mu]-ú ki-i-nu / ina pi-[i UN-MEŠ iš]-šak-kan / [LUGAL KUR GIŠ.GU.ZA ú]-lab-bar / [x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣ / [x x x x x x] nu? / [x x x x x x x]-bi / [x x x i]-ma-al-li-ku / BURU₁₄ KUR SI.SÁ KUR ḪÉ.NUN im-mar / ina? ITI.GUD UD 20-KÁM MUŠ li-duk / a-šá-ri-du-ti il-lak / šá mdU.GUR—KAR-ir
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 P237909.
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/P237909/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237909/.
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