Position in chronology
SAA 08 271. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 154) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) On the 1st day I wrote to the king as follows: On the 14th day the moon will be seen together with the sun. (Now), on the 14th day the moon and sun were seen together: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember Akkad favorably; there will be joy among people; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. (7) If the moon reaches the sun and follows it closely, and one horn meets the other: there will be truth in the land; the son will speak the truth with his father.— On the 14th day the moon is seen together with the sun. (r 4) If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding. (r 6) — On the 14th day the moon is seen together with the sun. (r 7) From Nergal-eṭir.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
UD 01-KÁM a-na LUGAL al-tap-ra um-ma UD 14-KAM / d30 it-ti dUTU in-nam-mar / UD 14-KÁM d30 ù dUTU it-ti a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ / KA GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI / ana MÍ.SIG₅ i-ḫa-as-sa-su ḫu-ud ŠÀ UN-MEŠ GAR-an / bu-lum KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš ina EDIN NÁ-iṣ / 1 d30 dUTU ik-šu-dam*-ma KI-šú / it-ten-ta SI SI i-dir / ina KUR kit-ti GÁL-ši-ma / DUMU KI AD-šú kit-ti i-ta-mi / UD 14-KÁM d30…
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 P237284.
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/P237284/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237284/.
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