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SAA 08 396. Full Moon on 15th Day, Meteor (RMA 164) [lunar, occasional]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) If on the 15th day the moon and sun are seen together: a strong enemy will raise his weapons against the land; the enemy will tear down the city gate. (5) If the moon becomes late and is not seen: attack of a ruling city. — On the 15th day it is seen together with the sun. (r 1) If the train of a meteor goes from east to west: rout; the enemy will defeat me and take the land. (r 5) Iyyar (II), Sivan (III), Tammuz (IV), Ab (V), Elul (VI): (for) these five months one god was not seen with the other on the 14th day. The king should know it and be informed. (r 9) From Rašil the older, servant of the king.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237892/
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Transliteration
1 UD 15-KÁM 30 u 20 it-ti a-ḫa-meš IGI-[MEŠ] / LÚ.KÚR dan-nu GIŠ.TUKUL-MEŠ-šú / ana KUR i-na-áš-šá-a / KÁ.GAL URU KÚR i-naq-qar / 1 30 uḫ-ḫi-ram-ma NU IGI-ir / te-bé-e URU kiš-šá-ti / UD 15-KÁM KI dUTU IGI-ma / 1 mi-ši-iḫ MUL TA IM.KUR.RA / a-na IM.MAR.TU im-šu-uḫ / KAR-ti KÚR ŠI.ŠI-a-a ⸢GAZ-ma⸣ / KUR TI-qí / ITI.GUD ITI.SIG₄ ITI.ŠU ITI.NE ITI.KIN / 05 ITI-MEŠ an-nu-ti / UD 14-KÁM DINGIR KI DINGIR NU IGI-[mar] / LUGAL lu-ú i-di u lu ḫa-⸢si⸣-[is] / šá mTUK-ši—DINGIR ARAD šá LUGAL IGI-u
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 P237892.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237892). 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/P237892/.
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