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SAA 08 411. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 142) [lunar]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [If on the 14th day the moon and sun] are seen together: [reliable speech]; the land will become happy: [the gods] will remember [Akkad] favorably; the king will reach [the highest rank]; the cattle of Akkad will lie in the steppe undisturbed. (6) If at the moon's appearance one horn meets the other: the flood will come. — On the 14th day their lights looked at each other. (r 2) If the moon is slow in its course: the har[vest of the land will prosper]. (r 3) If the moon at its appearance stands, makes ... [..., and], its [dwe]lling place is devastated: there will be [reconciliation and] peace, and [the son] will speak the truth [with his father]. (r 7) — [On the 14th day] it is seen with the sun. (r.e. 8) [From Raš]il.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P336462/
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Transliteration
[1 UD 14-KÁM 30 u 20 it]-⸢ti⸣ a-ḫa-meš IGI-⸢MEŠ⸣ / [KA GI.NA ŠÀ] KUR DÙG-ab / [DINGIR-MEŠ KUR—URI.KI ana] MÍ.SIG₅ i-ḫas-sa-su / LUGAL [a-šá-ri-du-tú] DU-ak / bu-lim KUR—URI.KI pár-ga-niš ina EDIN NÁ-iṣ / 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šú SI SI i-dir / A.KAL DU-kam / UD 14-KÁM UD.DA-su-nu / a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ-⸢ma⸣ / 1 30 ina DU-šú né-eḫ ⸢BURU₁₄⸣ [KUR SI.SÁ] / 1 30 ina IGI.LAL-šu GUB-iz ⸢x⸣+[x]+⸢x⸣ DÙ-⸢ma⸣ / [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 P336462.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P336462). 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/P336462/.
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