Position in chronology
SAA 08 300. Eclipse of the Moon in Evening Watch [eclipses]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [......] eclipse (predicting) deaths; deaths ... [......] Venus until [......]. (Break) (14) [......] Adad will devastate [......]. (16) [If] there is an eclipse in Sivan (III) on the 14th day: an [effective] kin[g who is famous will die, and his son, who] was not named for kingship, will seize the throne, and [there will be] hos[tility, variant: there will be deaths]. (r 1) [If] there is an eclipse [in S]ivan (III) from the 1st to the 30th day: it is an ec[lipse of the king of Akkad; a peak flood] will occur, and Adad will devastate the land; the harvest of the lan[d will not prosper; a…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[x x x x x x x x x x]+⸢x⸣-ni AN.MI ÚŠ-ME ÚŠ-ME ⸢x x⸣+[x x] / [x x x x x x x x x x x x] ⸢MUL⸣.dil-bat EN ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x] / [x x x x]+⸢x x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x x x x x] / [x x x d]⸢IM⸣ RA-⸢iṣ x⸣+[x x x x x x x x x x] / [1 ina ITI].⸢SIG₄⸣ UD 14-KÁM AN.MI GAR ⸢LUGAL⸣ [ga-mì-ru ša MU TUK-ú ÚŠ-ma] / [DUMU-šú šá ana] ⸢NAM⸣.LUGAL la zak-ru AŠ.TE DIB-ma MÍ.[KÚR GÁL :] [ÚŠ-ME GÁL-MEŠ] / [1 ina] ⸢ITI⸣.SIG₄…
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 P240140.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P240140). source
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P240140/.
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