Position in chronology
SAA 08 374. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136N) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If on the 14th day the moon and sun are seen [tog]ether: reliable speech; the land will become happy; the gods will remember A[kkad] favorably; there will be joy among the people; the king will become [happy]. (5) If the moon rea[ches] the sun [and follows it closely], and one horn m[eets] the other: [the son will speak truth with his] father [......]. (r 1) If the moon and sun [are in balance]: re[liable] speech will be placed in the mouth of people; the king [of the land will make the throne] last [long]. (r 4) If the moon and [sun are in opposition]: the king of the land [will widen his understanding]. (r 6) From Nabû-šu[ma-iškun].
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237917/
Why it matters
Transliteration
1 UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 [KI a-ḫa]-meš IGI-⸢MEŠ⸣ / KA GI.NA ŠÀ KUR DÙG-ab DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—[URI.KI] / ana SIG₅-tim i-ḫas-sa-su / ḫu-ud ŠÀ UN-MEŠ GAR-an ⸢ŠÀ LUGAL DÙG-ab?⸣ / 1 30 20 ik-šu-⸢dam⸣-[ma KI-šú it-ten-tú] / SI SI i-[dir] / [DUMU KI] AD-[šú kit-ti i-ta-mi] / 1 30 u 20 [šit-qu-lu] / at-mu-ú ⸢ki⸣-[i]-nu ina KA UN-MEŠ / GAR-an LUGAL [KUR GIŠ.GU].⸢ZA*⸣ SUMUN*-⸢bar*⸣ / 1 30 u [20 šu-ta-tu-ú] / LUGAL KUR [uz-na DAGAL-áš] / šá mdAG—⸢MU?⸣—[GAR-un]
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 P237917.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237917). source
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237917/.
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