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SAA 08 447. The Moon Will not Make an Eclipse (RMA 052) [eclipses]
Translation · reference
High confidence(1) [In Iy]yar (II) (the moon) will complete the day; [on the 14th] day the moon and sun will be seen together. The 13th [day], the night of the 14th day, is the [da]y of the watch (to be held), and there will be no eclipse. (r 1) I guarantee it seven times, an eclipse will not take place. I have written a definitive word to the king. (r 5) From Ṭab-ṣilli-Marduk, nephew of Bel-naṣir.
Source: Hunger, H. 1992. Astrological Reports to Assyrian Kings. SAA 8. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa08/P238064/
Why it matters
Transliteration
[ina ITI].⸢GUD?⸣ UD-mu ú-šal-lam / [UD 14?]-KÁM d30 u dUTU / it-ti a-ḫa-meš IGI-MEŠ / [UD] 13-KÁM mu-ši šá UD 14-KAM / [UD]-mu EN.NUN u AN.MI NU GAR / pu-⸢tú⸣ [a]-di* 07-šú na-šá-ka / AN.MI ul iš-šak-kan / a-mat pa-ri-is-tum / a-na LUGAL al-tap-ra / šá mDÙG.GA—GIŠ.MI—dAMAR.UTU / DUMU ŠEŠ-šú šá mdEN—na-ṣir
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 P238064.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts, P238064). 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/P238064/.
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