Position in chronology
SAA 08 273. Pleiades in Lunar Halo on Full Moon Day (RMA 144A) [planetary]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(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 [......]. (4) If the moon and sun are in oppos[ition]: the king of the land will wi[den his under]standing. (6) — On the 14th day [it is seen] with the sun. (r 1) [If the moon] on the 14th day [is surrounded] by a halo [...]: the land will dwell in quiet. (r 3) If the moon [is surrounded] by a halo, and the Pleiades [stand in it]: in this year [women] will [give birth] to male children; variant: the king's land will rebel against him; dimi[nution of barley]. (r 6) If the moon is surrounded by a halo, and it ling[ers on]: giving of the reign [to the king]. (r 8) From Nergal-[eṭir].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
⸢1⸣ UD 14-KÁM 30 ù [20 KI a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ] / KA GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab [DINGIR-MEŠ URI.KI] / ana SIG₅-tim i-ḫa-as-<sa>-su [x x x x] / 1 30 ù 20 šu-ta-[tu-ú] / LUGAL KUR [uz]-na ú-⸢rap⸣-[pa-áš] / UD 14-⸢KÁM⸣ it-ti dUTU [in-nam-mar-ma] / [1 30 UD] ⸢14⸣-KÁM TÙR [NIGIN x x] / ⸢KUR?⸣ KI.[TUŠ né]-⸢eḫ⸣-tu uš-⸢ša⸣-[ab] / 1 30 TÙR [NIGIN-ma] MUL.MUL [ina ŠÀ-bi-šú GUB] / ina MU BI [MÍ-MEŠ] NITA-MEŠ…
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 P237454.
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/P237454/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237454/.
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