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SAA 08 425. Full Moon on 14th Day (RMA 136M) [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 cattle of Akkad] will lie in the steppe undisturbed; there will be joy among the people; [the king will become] happy. (6) If the moon reaches the sun and [follows it closely], and one horn meets the other: there will be truth in the land, and the son [will speak] the truth with his father. (r 1) If the moon and sun are in balance: [reliable] speech will be placed in the mouth of people; the foundation of the king's t[hrone will become stable]. (r 3) If the moon and sun are in opposition: the king of the land will widen his understanding; there will be truth [in the land]. (r 6) From Nabû-iqbi.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P237884/
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 [MÁŠ.ANŠE KUR—URI.KI] / par-ga-niš ina EDIN i-rab-bi-[iṣ] / ḫu-ud ŠÀ UN-MEŠ GAR-an ŠÀ [LUGAL DÙG] / 1 30 20 ik-šu-dam-ma [KI-šú it-ten-tu] / SI SI i-dir ina KUR ⸢kit⸣-[tu] / GÁL-ši-ma DUMU KI <AD>-šú ⸢kit⸣-[ti i-ta-mi] / 1 30 u 20 šit-qul-lu at-⸢mu⸣-[ú ki-i-nu] / ina KA…
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 P237884.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P237884). 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/P237884/.
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