Position in chronology
SAA 08 331. New Moon on 30th Day (RMA 032) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [If the moon at its appearance] wears a crown: [the harvest of the land] will prosper; the land will dwell as if in pastures near the city; the king will reach the highest rank. (4) [If the moon's] horns at its appearance are pointed: the king will strike d[own] the land of his enemy. (r 1) If the moon [becomes visible] in Tammuz (IV) on the 30th day: dispersal of all lands. (r 3) The king should not make war against evil. (r 4) (The moon) wears a crown, is red, and its horns are short: good for the king. (r 6) [From Aša]redu the older, [servant of] the king.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[1 30 ina IGI.LAL]-šú AGA a-pir / [BURU₁₄ KUR] SI.SÁ KUR a-bur-riš TUŠ / ⸢LUGAL⸣ SAG.KAL-tú DU-ak / [1 30] ina IGI.LAL-šú SI-MEŠ-šú ed-da / LUGAL KUR KÚR-šú ú-nak-[kap] / 1 30 ina ITI.ŠU UD 30-KÁM [IGI-ir] / BIR-aḫ KUR.KUR / LUGAL a-na ḪUL la ú-ga-⸢ri⸣ / AGA a-pir SA₅ u SI-MEŠ-šú / [x] ⸢ku?⸣-ra SIG₅ šá LUGAL / [šá ma-šá]-ri-du IGI-ú / [ARAD šá] LUGAL
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 P239111.
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/P239111/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P239111/.
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