Position in chronology
SAA 08 336. Eclipse of the Moon in Evening Watch of Sivan 14 (RMA 270) [eclipses]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) [......] ... will change; [......] there will be [fl]oods from the sources. (3) [If the moon makes] an eclipse in the evening watch ... [......], the eclipse (is for) the king of Akkad; a great king will die. (4) [If] there is an eclipse, and the north wind blows: the gods will have mercy on the land. (5) If the moon comes out darkly: a devastating flood will take place. (6) If the moon comes out darkly and lingers on: destruction of all lands. (7) If the moon comes out darkly and is like the command of the sky: the king will overthrow all lands in defeat, variant: the gods will overthrow…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[x x x x x x x]-lum KÚR-MEŠ / [x x x A].KAL-ME ina IDIM GÁL-ME / [30] AN.MI EN.NUN—AN.USAN x x x ⸢x⸣+[x x x x x AN].MI LUGAL URI.KI LUGAL GAL ÚŠ / [1] AN.MI GAR-ma IM.SI.SÁ DU DINGIR-MEŠ ana KUR ARḪUŠ TUK-MEŠ / 1 30 ad-riš È-a A.⸢MA*⸣.RU IŠ-ti GAR-an / 1 30 ad-riš È-ma* u id-lip* NÍG.ḪA.LAM.MA KUR DÙ.A.BI / 1 30 ad-riš È-ma GIM ṭè-em AN-e GAR LUGAL KUR.KUR / ina ŠI.ŠI ú-šam-qat : DINGIR-MEŠ…
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 P237949.
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/P237949/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237949/.
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