Position in chronology
SAA 08 343. New Moon on 1st Day, Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 048) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(1) If the moon becomes visible on the 1st day of Kislev (IX) ...: the king of Akkad will weaken the land wherever he goes, variant: the king of Akkad will rule the land wherever he turns. (5) On the 14th day (the moon) was seen together with the sun: disbanding of the fortified outposts, retiring of the guards; [there will be] reconciliation and peace in the land. (r 1) The king [will ...] the remainder of the good things. Quickly the king will hear a report of well-being to be glad about. (r 4) From Ašaredu.
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
1 d30 UD 01-KÁM šá ITI.GAN ZA IGI-mar / LUGAL URI.KI e-ma DU-ku KUR un-na-aš / : LUGAL URI.KI e-ma IGI-MEŠ-šú GAR-nu / KUR EN-el / UD 14-KÁM KI dUTU it-tan-mar / pa-ṭar URU bi-ra-a-ti / a-rad ma-aṣ-ṣa-ra-ti / taš-mu-u sa-li-mu ina KUR [GÁL] / si-it-ti SIG₅-MEŠ-šú LUGAL ⸢x⸣ [x] / ḫa-an-ṭiš ṭè-e-mu u šu-lum / šá ḫa-de-e LUGAL i-šem-mu / šá ma-šá-ri-du
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 P237288.
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/P237288/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237288/.
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