Position in chronology
SAA 08 410. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 151A) [lunar]
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 8(Beginning destroyed) (1) [reliable speech]; the land will become happy; the g[ods will remember] Akkad favorably; the king will reach complete dominion; the cattle of Akkad [will lie in the steppe] undisturbed. (5) If at the moon's appearance one horn m[eets] the other: the flood will come. (7) Earlier, I wrote to the king my lord as follows: "On the 14th day one god will be seen with the other." (r 1) If the moon reaches the sun and [follows it closely]: there will be truth in the land; [the son] will speak [the truth with his father. — On the 14th day one god] is seen [with the other]. (r…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 8 — scholar edition (ORACC).
Transliteration
[KA GI.NA] ⸢ŠÀ⸣ KUR DÙG.GA ⸢DINGIR⸣-[MEŠ] / KUR—URI.KI ana MÍ.SIG₅ i-[ḫa-sa-su] / LUGAL ga-me-ru-tú DU-[ak] / bu-lim KUR—URI.KI par-ga-niš ina [EDIN NÁ-iṣ] / 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI SI i-[dir] / A.KAL DU-[kám] / ina maḫ-ri-i a-na LUGAL be-lí-ia / al-tap-ra um-ma UD 14-KAM / DINGIR KI DINGIR IGI / 1 30 20 KUR-ma KI-šú [it-ten-tu ina] KUR / kit-ti GÁL [DUMU KI AD-šú kit]-⸢ti⸣ / i-ta-mu [UD 14-KÁM…
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 P237957.
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/P237957/..
Translation excerpted from Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237957/.
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