Position in chronology
SAA 08 295. Full Moon on 15th Day (RMA 153) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon does not wait for the sun [but sets]: raging of lion[s and wolves]. (3) I.e., on the 14th day one god is not [seen] with the other. (4) If at the appearance of the moon one horn pa[sses] the other: hostility will take place. (6) I.e., on the 14th day one god is not se[en] with the other. (7) If the moon is fast in its course: business will diminish. — On the 15th day it will be seen with the sun. (r 1) This night a halo surrounded the moon, Virgo and the Frond star stood in it. (r 3) If the moon is surrounded by a halo and the Bow star stands in it: men will rage, and…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 30 dUTU la ú-qí-[ma ir-bi] / na-an-dur UR.MAḪ-⸢MEŠ⸣ [u UR.BAR.RA-MEŠ] / šá UD 14-KÁM DINGIR KI DINGIR la in-[nam-mar-ma] / 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI SI i-⸢ti⸣-[iq] / MÍ.KÚR GAR-an / šá UD 14-KÁM DINGIR KI DINGIR la in-nam-[mar-ma] / 1 30 ina DU-šú e-zi KI.LAM TUR-ir / UD 15-KÁM KI dUTU IGI-mar-ra / mu-ši a-ga-a d30 TÙR il-ta-mi / MUL.AB.SÍN u MUL.A.EDIN ina ŠÀ-bi ú-šu-uz-zu / 1 30 TÙR NIGIN-ma…
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 P237887.
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/P237887/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237887/.
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