Position in chronology
SAA 08 333. (no title) (RMA 170) [unclassifiable]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(Beginning destroyed) (1) If the moon in Shebat (XI) on the 14th or 15th day is not seen together with the sun: a massive flood will come and will make the harvest small. (4) The wisest, merciful Bel, the warrior Marduk, became angry at night, but relented in the morning. You, o king of the world, are an image of Marduk; when you were angry with your servants, we suffered the anger of the king our lord; and we saw the reconciliation of the king. (r 7) Why my relatives [......]. (Break) (e. 1) From Ašare[du] the older, [servant of the king].
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 30 ina ITI.ZÍZ UD 14-KÁM lu UD 15-KAM / KI 20 NU IGI A.KAL gap-šú DU-ma / BURU₁₄ TUR-ár / ap-kal-lu IGI.GÁL.LA / dEN re-mi-nu-ú qar-rad dAMAR.UTU / ina MI i-zu-uz-ma / ina še-e-ri it-tap-šar / LUGAL ŠÚ ṣa-lam dAMAR.UTU at-ta / a-na ŠÀ-bi ARAD-MEŠ-ni-i-ka / ki-i tar-ʾu-ú-bu ru-ʾu-ub-ti / šá LUGAL EN-ni ni-il-ta-da-ad / u su-lum-mu-ú šá LUGAL ni-ta-mar / am-me-ni LÚ.ki-na-at-ú-a / 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 P336481.
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/P336481/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336481/.
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