Position in chronology
SAA 08 316. Eclipse of the Moon, Jupiter Visible (RMA 268) [eclipses]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) I could not let the king my lord hear the words about the eclipse from my mouth. Now in compensation I send a written report to the king my lord. (3) The evil of an eclipse affects the one identified by the month, the one identified by the day, the one identified by the watch, the one identified by the beginning, where (the eclipse) begins and where the moon pulls off its eclipse and drops it; these (people) receive its evil. (5) Sivan (III) means the Westland, and a decision is given for Ur. The evil of the 14th day, as is said, the 14th day means Elam. The beginning, where (the eclipse)…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
dib-bi šá AN.MI ina pi-ia a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía ul ú-še-eš-mu / a-du-ú ma*-al-ṭa-ru ku-ú-mu a-na LUGAL be-lí-ía al-tap-ra / šá AN.MI ḪUL-šú a-na EN ITI EN UD-mu EN ma-aṣ-ṣar-tum EN taš-ri-tum / a-šar ú-šar-ru-ú ù a-šar d30 AN.MI-šú i-šaḫ-ḫa-ṭu-ma i-na-as-su-ku / ḪUL-šú an-nu-tum i-maḫ-ḫa-ru ITI.SIG₄ KUR—MAR.TU.KI ù / pu-ru-us-su-ú a-na ŠEŠ.UNUG.KI na-din ḪUL šá UD 14-KÁM šá qa-bu-ú / UD 14-KÁM…
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 P238143.
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/P238143/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P238143/.
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